Catskills wellness campus
The 230-acre Catskills campus reimagines the summer camp, filling days with movement classes, craft workshops, and walks alongside rescue goats.
“More than a century old, the campus evokes classic Catskills summer camp tradition, reimagined as an upscale, year-round adult retreat.”
What it’s good at
Remarkable
Indoor and outdoor barrel saunas accompany sound baths in the vaulted movement studio.
Remarkable
Wooded Catskills trails host daily hikes alongside rescue goats and a climbing tower.
Notable
Restrained Quaker-influenced rooms feature Portuguese wood furniture, wall pegs, and earthy palettes.
What they say
Michelin Selected
Michelin
Also in Condé Nast Traveler, Wallpaper* and AFAR.
It’s named not for what Socrates drank but for the altogether more salutary Eastern Hemlock, a tree that grows prodigiously in this corner of the Catskills.
Tucked away
A place apart: the property is the destination.
Five miles of trails thread the grounds, and the nearby Red Hill Fire Tower overlooks the surrounding mountain peaks.
The rooms
Rooms adopt a spare Quaker aesthetic with wall pegs and no televisions. Select units open to private patios or outdoor showers.
The indoor pool
Bring a swimsuit.
A heated indoor lap pool stretches beneath timber ceilings and arched alcoves, steps from a sunlit whirlpool bath.
The spa and saunas
Chaise loungers in the spa look out across the woods. Outside, a cedar barrel sauna sits along the hillside.
Bittersweet Restaurant
Plant-forward Catskills fare is served across three daily seatings in a rustic dining room with an open kitchen pass.
It felt borderline religious, catching sight of the ultra-blue indoor swimming pool, brightened by rays of light beaming through a sideline of archways, or the movement building...
How it began
The estate once operated as the 1970s New Age Health Spa, an early wellness pioneer known for juice cleanses and strict regimens.
“It’s set on 230 acres, encircled with private trails, and has a goat barn – the 'most therapeutic experience one can ever hope to have' –”
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