Private campsites & glamping in Catskill, NY

Catskill sits where the Catskill Creek meets the Hudson, in the exact landscape the Hudson River School painters made famous — Thomas Cole's house still stands on Spring Street, and the views that taught America what wilderness looked like start at the edge of town. It's the eastern doorway to the mountains: Kaaterskill Falls, North-South Lake, and the trailheads of the northern Catskills are all within twenty minutes, while the town itself has quietly become one of the region's best bases, with a real main street of bookshops, bakeries, and the kind of cafes that close on Tuesdays.

Glamping around Catskill leans design-forward. A former summer camp on Leeds Athens Road now rents remodeled vintage Airstreams, custom treehouses, and canvas tents under old-growth trees; a minimalist retreat on Mossy Hill Road pairs spare Scandinavian cabins with a standout restaurant; and a 51-cabin village on Cairo Junction Road — once Getaway, now part of Marriott's outdoor collection — hides tiny cabins in the pines ten minutes from town. Two hours from Manhattan, booked solid on summer weekends: go midweek or go in October.

3 stays in Catskill