The Top 15 Hotels Near Seminary Hill Orchard & Cidery
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The Catskills are having a moment, and Seminary Hill is at the center of it. The Boarding House, a 17-room boutique hotel run by local hospitality group Homestedt, sits just down from a working cidery in a pair of renovated houses done up in Shaker-inspired contemporary style. Clean lines, considered materials, and a setting that makes you feel like you've earned the fresh air. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.
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A Victorian boarding house that's been around forever sits on 55 lakefront acres in the Catskills, now running as a 22-room boutique hotel with ten freestanding bungalows and a private cottage. Rooms mix modern and vintage touches with knowing nods to the old house, while the bungalows add gas stoves for the months when the Catskills remind you they mean it. The Michelin Guide has it among its selected hotels.
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The slogan "a friendly place for nice people" has been the house philosophy here for a long time, which either sounds like a joke or the most disarming resort pitch imaginable. This old-school Catskills property has been around forever, predating the whole Borscht Belt wave, and carries a genuinely laissez-faire looseness that most boutique hotels only pretend to. The rooms and grounds feel like a throwback, but not a dusty one.
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Ten rooms in the Poconos, which the owners call a "micro-hotel" with a straight face. What it is, more plainly, is a small boutique hotel that bets on the Poconos having a moment the way the Catskills have been having theirs for a while now. City comforts land in the middle of good northeastern Pennsylvania woods, near Promised Land State Park, for the East Coast urbanite who wants nature with decent bedding.
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The exterior looks lifted straight from American Gothic, all stern clapboard and small-town Pennsylvania gravitas. Step inside and the Hotel Fauchère pivots hard toward cosmopolitan boutique hotel, the kind of place that quietly embarrasses the flyover-country assumption. Milford sits in the long stretch between Philly and Pittsburgh, and this is where city people go when they want the mountains without giving up the thread count. Michelin awarded it one Key.
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Pendleton blankets, wood paneling, and leather everything: Urban Cowboy Lodge commits to the rustic bit without apology, which is partly the point of escaping the city in the first place. This Catskills retreat spreads 28 rooms and suites across five buildings, from cabin-style quarters to a sprawling six-bedroom lodge floor. An Estonian Iglu sauna sits in a trailer on the property, apparently the only one in the country, because of course it does.
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A nine-hole golf course designed by King-Collins, a firm with a devoted following in the industry, sets the tone for this 40-room Catskills retreat, where the farmhouse rooms and freestanding cabins share a studied utilitarian-chic look. Dinner in the communal dining room runs Mediterranean with Hudson Valley produce. A spa, sauna, bathhouse, tennis, and a pool round things out. It holds a Michelin Key.
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A working farm in Gardiner that takes the "secluded" part more seriously than most Hudson Valley properties, Wildflower Farms is an Auberge resort with 65 cabins spread across actual farmland. The produce grown on the property feeds Clay, the on-site restaurant. The Thistle Spa handles the rest. It holds a Michelin Key, which is the guide's way of saying the stay itself is the point.
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Each room in this Catskills mansion hotel commits completely to a single fantasy: one recreates a blacksmith's forge, another is an ice-white winter fantasia that a Disney princess would find a touch understated. Sister property to the famously TV-and-movie-obsessed Roxbury Motel, this place carries the same gleeful maximalism into a grander building. Guests who find regular hotel decor too timid tend to fit right in.
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Kate Pierson of the B-52s once gave this creekside motel its kitschy makeover, and the current owners have since turned it into a boutique inn with rustic-chic rooms, locally roasted coffee, and Apotheke bath products. It sits in Mount Tremper, quietly selected by the Michelin Guide, and draws the kind of guests who pack a Patagonia vest and call it roughing it. The creek is real, at least.