![]() ![]() The refurbished wooden cabins are the roomiest, housing up to six people and offering a full-sized kitchen. The canvas tents on wooden platforms are the most basic and affordable, unavailable in winter and lacking private bathrooms (though the shared bathrooms in the Clubhouse are most luxurious). There are ten each of tents, suites and cabins, each with its particular selling points and pricing levels. The Catskills iteration had its Grand Opening last Thursday, on the site of the former Saugerties/Woodstock KOA Campground on Route 212 near the confluence of Blue Mountain Road, and it’s pretty impressive.ĪutoCamp Catskills hosts 87 rental units on two loops. Another new location near Zion National Park is slated to open next year. Yes, housing the kind of visitors who like the concept of camping without all its inherent discomforts in cozy customized Airstream trailers is the specialty of the AutoCamp chain, which operates campgrounds in Yosemite, Joshua Tree and Russian River in California and near Falmouth on Cape Cod. Enjoying a firepit behind the check-in building on a cool day. If you cherish childhood memories of staying in one of these classic streamlined mid-century aluminum trailers, they may capture your fancy as well. But I found myself unexpectedly ensnared by AutoCamp Catskills. I was prepared to shrug it off as just another manifestation of the onslaught of deep-pocketed New York City folk who, since COVID hit, have been driving up housing prices in our region as never before. So it was with a slightly jaundiced eye that your humble correspondent trained her sights on the latest of these luxury campgrounds to open in the Hudson Valley One readership area. Sure, they’re relatively green businesses but almost no locals can afford their pricetags, and there’s no guarantee that the wealthy out-of-towners who come to stay at such places will spend much at local shops and restaurants. ![]() If you pay any attention at all to the kinds of development issues that tend to provoke ire among citizens at Town Board and Planning Board meetings, you will know that proposals to build “glamping” resorts are high up on that list. ![]()
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