Family-Friendly Hotels & Lodges in the Catskills
The Catskills have always worked for families — the terrain is manageable, the swimming holes are accessible, and the drive from New York City is short enough to do without drama. The lodging that does it well has gotten better. Wylder Windham runs a full outdoor activity program. Callicoon Hills has a pool that actually fills up in summer and a communal energy that works with kids in it. Full Moon Resort sits at the end of a valley where the kids don't need to be managed. The best family stays here are the ones where the property itself provides enough — you're not just renting a room and figuring out the rest.
8 Properties
Full Moon Resort
Big Indian, NY · Resort
One hundred acres in the Oliverea Valley near Big Indian — ten minutes from Belleayre Mountain, about 2.5 hours from the city. The room package includes three meals a day, which is unusual for the region and defines the stay: hot buffet breakfasts and lunches, dinners in the dining room, occasional creek-side BBQs. Accommodations range from valley-view inn rooms to luxury studio cottages with private decks to glamping tents and multi-bedroom family cottages. A heated four-season pool, hot tub, and fly fishing on the Esopus Creek are on the property. The kind of place families book the same week every year.
Camptown
Catskill, NY · Boutique Hotel
A former motor lodge reimagined by the team behind Hudson's Rivertown Lodge. Twenty-four hotel rooms and 26 log cabins with wood-burning stoves, Frette linens, and heated bathroom floors. A firepit lit every night at dusk. Casa Susanna, the on-site Mexican restaurant, is worth the drive on its own.
Callicoon Hills
Callicoon Center, NY · Historic Resort
A 120-year-old property on 23 acres in Sullivan County, operating since 1905. Sixty-five rooms, an oversized pool, yoga deck, saunas, The Conover Club restaurant. The spirit deliberately points at Borscht Belt communal energy — people come here to gather. Sullivan County's resurgent food and arts scene is all around it.
Wylder Windham
Windham, NY · Resort
A full-service resort near Windham Mountain — swimming pool, outdoor activities, ski proximity, and the family infrastructure that makes a trip with kids actually work. Rooms are well-appointed without being precious. Designed for people with different definitions of a good day who need to share one property.
Winter Clove Inn
Round Top, NY · Inn
One of the oldest continuously operating inns in the Catskills — family-run since 1830 and still going. Full meal plan, golf, skiing, hiking, and events on property. Not a boutique play, but genuinely historic and an important piece of what the Catskills has always been.
Matterhorn Hunter Lodge
Hunter, NY · Lodge
Nine rooms directly in front of the Hunter Mountain lifts, with trail views from the windows, full kitchens, fireplaces, and a large deck per unit. A game room on-site. No restaurant. The draw is practical: you can cook, spread out, watch the mountain, and not pay boutique prices. Starting around $141/night, it is the most affordable option within walking distance of the Hunter lifts.
Gavin's Irish Country Inn
East Durham, NY · Inn
The anchor of East Durham's Irish Catskills community — an inn and pub with live music seven nights a week, Irish hospitality, and a setting that exists entirely apart from the boutique corridor. East Durham has been the center of Irish-American summer culture in the Catskills for generations. A piece of regional history that the broader Catskills conversation tends to undercount.
Stamford Gables B&B
Stamford, NY · B&B
A B&B at 42 Main Street in Stamford, in Delaware County's quieter northwest corner — far enough from the weekend design circuit to still feel like a town rather than a destination. Jean runs it with a focus on breakfast: stuffed French toast, pancakes, homemade breads and muffins made to order. Small, consistently well-regarded, and the right fit for a trip where you want to arrive and be looked after without ceremony.
View more Family-friendly properties
Browse Now →What Makes It
- •A pool is a meaningful differentiator for families: Callicoon Hills, Wylder Windham, and Camptown all have pools that see real use in summer. Worth planning around if you're coming with young kids.
- •The Sullivan County properties — Callicoon Hills, Full Moon Resort — are less crowded than the Ulster County corridor and feel more spacious. The communal energy at Callicoon Hills works especially well for multi-family trips.
- •For ski season, Wylder Windham and Matterhorn Hunter Lodge are the clearest family ski bases — near Windham and Hunter respectively — with the infrastructure to handle the logistics of skiing with kids.
Similar Collections
Frequently Asked