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This season, we pulled together a mix of our favorite venues from the Camp VR collection alongside a few new discoveries and paired each with an outdoor dining theme designed to actually work in winter. Inspired by Tabloo Margot’s Heritage Season dinner in the woods, complete with Wellington boots, hip flasks, and clay pigeon shooting, and our deep dives into Ralph Lauren’s American West holiday window and Le Supper Club’s approach to theatrical hosting, the throughline is clear: the most compelling dinners start with a strong sense of place and let everything else follow. When the setting is right, the details, food, drinks, table styling, even how guests arrive, come into focus. The venues that follow are cabins, lakeside lodges, ranches, camps, and glamping sites that already do half the storytelling for you. A pavilion between mountain ranges calls for late season harvest cooking; a Maine camp leans naturally into nostalgia and fire circle dining; a Wyoming ranch begs for stews, boots, and an after-ride cocktail by the barn. Winter is when themed dining shines. Cooler temperatures invite heartier food, longer tables, warmer drinks, and a sense of shared experience that feels earned. Start with the venue, choose a theme that fits its bones, and you’ll find the dinner practically hosts itself.

Pack your bags, coolers, and camp gear. We’re headed to Upstate New York, where the air is fresh, the pools are lined with pine trees, and roughing it means retreating to a luxury cabin with clawfoot tubs, canopy beds, and Aesop. The cabins and lodges here were once humble summer camps and ski inns, but today they’ve been reborn with Frette sheets, chef-led restaurants, and design details that make even a rainy weekend feel like an editorial spread. For our Camp VR series; a look at the stylish side of cabin culture, lakefront lounging, and campfire retreats, spotlighting the Catskills is essential. The region captures both the sentimentality of childhood camping trips and the timeless elegance of celebrating in nature: wedding weekends backed by the mountain ridge, fireside birthday dinners, or corporate off-sites that swap sterile ballrooms for waterfalls and trail mix.  In other words, the Catskills is exemplary of the charm, nostalgia, and style that Camp VR celebrates, which is why we’ve rounded up our absolute favorite camp-adjacent hotels and lodges across Upstate New York.