You're Invited to CAMP VR - The Cozy Season Edition
You’re officially invited to our Camp VR Collection, a study in cold-weather gatherings and group trips rooted in classic American camp culture. This is where cedar cabins, wool blankets, tartan tables, and campfire menus set the tone for how groups come together when the temperature drops. From former motor lodges reimagined as design-forward retreats to cozy recipes made for fireside dinner parties, Camp VR celebrates the great outdoors and even better company. Think chili ladled straight from enamel pots, lantern-lit tables, card games by the fire, and camp venues that turn overnight stays into goat yoga and hiking trails. Whether it’s a winter birthday, a friends’ trip, or a brand gathering that favors cableknit and pine, this collection makes the case for camp as the most social setting of the season.
The seasonal thesis behind Camp VR: a considered take on winter gatherings shaped by heritage design, cabins, club culture, and cold-weather rituals worth planning around.
Mid-century cabins, a general store stocked with camp essentials, six reservable fire pits, and a central lodge keep camp morale high, where days move between kayaking, gourmet hot dogs at the on-site restaurant, and double-espresso orders at the Camp Café. It’s a place designed for groups who want cornhole and card games with their downtime; assigned cabins, shared meals, and evenings that reliably end with marshmallows, card games, and someone insisting on one last round.
Inspired by Ralph Lauren’s holiday windows, this guide translates campfire Americana into a fully realized dinner party; tumbleweeds and brambles underfoot, eighty taper candles flickering like a hearth, enamel mugs filled with spiked coffee, and a menu built around cast-iron comfort and Western classics. It’s a masterclass in hosting where styling, food, fashion, and ritual work together to turn a winter meal into a scene worth dressing for.
A coast-to-coast shortlist of venues that function like a built-in weekend plan: tartan clad lodges, design-forward cabins, glamping setups with martini-carts, and properties where bonfires double as dinner service and everyone sleeps close enough to actually show up. Expect places made for buyouts, long tables, fire pits, and the kind of group logistics that make celebrations feel effortless.
This Camp VR girls’ trip guide is equal parts lake-house logistics and preppy, fisherman fantasy: knits over swimsuits, sauna-to-dock beauty routines, spiked cider by the fire, and venues that host girl's trips like camp programming (grown-up s’mores included). You’ll get expert packing and makeup strategy, a capsule wardrobe plan, and a shortlist of stays where bunk beds become the bonding activity and the espresso martini counts as “outdoorsy.”
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A nearly 150-year-old lakeside retreat gets a modern rewrite here, where Nature Cabins replace tents, saunas and fire pits anchor the social plan, and long weekends revolve around the lake, the heated pool, and a restaurant with serious views. This story breaks down how Prospect Berkshires turns historic picnic-ground energy into an effortless group setup; on-site lodging, walkable gathering spaces, and enough outdoor programming to keep everyone outside until the fire pits take over.
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This is bonfire hosting with a dress code: chef-driven recipes, fireside cocktails poured from vintage kettles, and desserts torched tableside while the logs burn low. The guide rounds up fifteen elevated food and drink ideas designed for enamel plates, crystal coupes, and nights where the fire pit doubles as the bar.
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This is your Upstate NY cheat sheet for planning a group weekend that reads like a magazine spread but functions like a well-run camp; boutique lodges, design-led cabins, saunas, fire pits, and just enough programming to keep everyone off their phones and on the property. Expect a tight roster of standout stays (from estate-style hotels to Airstream glamping and bathhouse compounds) where “roughing it” comes with clawfoot tubs, good martinis, and a central hangout spot that solves the hardest part of any trip: keeping the group together.
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This immersive dinner takes guests off the beaten path and into a fully staged hunting-season fantasy, complete with torchlit arrivals, clay pigeon shooting, fire-cooked courses, and a menu built around game, smoke, and winter vegetables. It’s a masterclass in Camp VR hosting; where place dictates pacing, food mirrors landscape, and the venue does as much storytelling as the table itself.
Practical guidance for hosting outdoors in winter, distilled. What to serve, how to seat, and which details matter when warmth, movement, and ease come first.
This expansive roundup pulls together cabins, tiny homes, A-frames, and off-grid hideaways built for friend trips that prioritize fireplaces, hot tubs, shared kitchens, and long, unstructured weekends. From lakefront cottages and Scandinavian glass cabins to campgrounds that double as group playgrounds, it’s a practical guide to choosing the right basecamp when “cozy” is the whole point of the plan.
This creekside supper club turned collaboration into choreography, staging a floating, firefly-lit dinner where florals drifted on water, cocktails were batched with intention, and every chef, designer, and maker built the night together. It’s a case study in community-driven hosting where setting, ritual, and collective effort mattered as much as the food.
Gather Greene is Hudson Valley camp with an architectural backbone: timber-and-glass cabins on a ridgeline, a big open-air pavilion built for long-table weekends, and the kind of programming that turns “arrival” into a scene (apple cider donuts, spiked cider, cheesemaking demos, a quarry pond wander). It’s rooted in Scandinavian restraint and the Dutch idea of gezellig a place designed to make people slow down, stay put, and actually spend the weekend together.
↳ Tour the cabins, see the pavilion, and book your next group takeover →
Under Canvas brings hotel-level comfort to the edge of the Grand Canyon, with fully outfitted safari tents, real beds and heat, a West Elm–styled welcome tent, yoga deck, and outdoor gathering spaces made for groups who want nature without the logistics. It’s glamping scaled for everything from friend trips and retreats to intimate weddings, where the desert does the heavy lifting and the camp handles the rest.
These three campfire cocktails are built for real outdoor conditions: one-burner setups, enamel mugs, and ingredients that actually travel well. From a bourbon hot cocoa with charred marshmallow to a lavender mule that drinks clean by the fire, this is fall camping done with intention.
This floating cabin off Palm Beach, Australia trades pine trees for open water, offering a Scandinavian-leaning, solar-powered stay that feels closer to a private villa than a boat. With a wraparound deck, firelit evenings, an on-board wine cellar, and space to host anything from an intimate birthday for two to a small group celebration, Lilypad reframes the cabin getaway as something decidedly nautical and deliberately unhurried.
↳ See how a floating stay becomes the ultimate birthday plan →
Bay Point Landing combines modern coastal cabins, Airstreams, and RV-friendly sites with a clubhouse designed for actually spending time together. With a saltwater pool, fire pits, and direct access to Oregon’s southern coast, it works equally well for a low-key birthday weekend with friends or a solo reset built around beach walks, wildlife spotting, and unplanned afternoons.
↳ See the cabins, clubhouse, and plan a coastal birthday stay →
Set against snow-dusted woods at Gather Greene, this end-of-winter gathering centers on simple rituals rather than packed itineraries: shared meals, forest foraging walks, hands-on crafts, and time around the fire. It offers a clear blueprint for hosting a winter girls’ weekend or bachelorette that feels restorative, social, and deliberately low-pressure, with the setting carrying the experience.
↳ See how to plan a winter cabin weekend built around ease and connection →
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