*Click on our logo to see all four of our container cabins. Cabin 1: This renovated 4-season container cabin has a woodstove, sofa bed, kitchenette, La Colombe coffee service, record player, new patio, shower, fire ring, hammock, and a compost toilet set in a detached bathroom. It is surrounded by an old growth forest and adjacent to a 15-foot slate cliff. It sits on 20 acres and is two hours north of NYC. Woodstock, Kingston, Saugerties, Catskill and dozens of hiking trails are 15 minutes away.
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"One of the best Airbnb cabins we’ve rounded up from all across the U.S. " - Architectural Digest, 2022
"Top 12 Airbnbs in the Catskills" - Time Out, 2018-2023
This cabin was designed to give you total immersion in nature. We love weekending in the 20-foot shipping container! It is not like living in a house or a hotel room or a glamping tent. It is not like other tiny home compounds with dozens of units set 10 feet away from one another. This is a family operation that offer four cabins, each on their own 5-acre parcels.
Staying here is like camping in the woods, except that you are encased in high-efficiency insulated walls and low-energy windows—and sleeping on a comfortable queen-size (Ikea Friheten) sofa bed with organic percale linens. If it's cold outside (with the propane furnace and wood stove it's always warm inside) we usually leave the bed out, lounge around drinking coffee, and steam in the Finnish sauna (built in a 10-foot container a short walk away...Book multiple 120-minute private sauna sessions, no extra charge.) If it's warm, we leave the double doors open and lounge around the patio. Lots of lounging...
The kitchenette is equipped with a sink and a two-burner propane cooktop. There is no refrigerator; there is a cooler for your ice and perishables. (Because the cabin is off-grid, running water comes from a foot pump near the sink.) There are enough pots/pans/basics to cook whatever you want. (Yes, we have a coffee grinder.) There is a grill for the fire and a propane grill, and we often cook there. The wood stove stays warm all night if you know how to build a fire. If you don't, you'll be up at 4am lighting it again. We leave you Fatwood firestarter to make it a bit easier. In the summer, a breeze off 3,645-foot Kaaterskill High Peak keeps the container cool.
Staying in the cabin is an experience, not a simple overnight. There is something very special about it and this property. On a 20-degree night in the middle of a blizzard, it is 80 degrees and silent inside. More than a dozen guests have gotten engaged here. (All said "yes!") Another guest chopped his bundle of wood into 1,000 toothpick-sized pieces thinking that the fire would burn longer and hotter that way. (It does not.)
There is a 15-foot slate ridge encasing the cabin. The hammock is perfect for reading and sleeping. The horseshoe pit is fun as hell; the record player is the bomb. This place was built for two. Or two and an infant.
All guests are left with potable drinking water. There are overhead lights and touch-activated LED camping lights in the house. A new, zero-maintenance compost toilet is set in a small outbuilding surrounded by trees, thirty feet from the cabin. There is a shower there as well, though we recommend using the sauna shower in the winter. (Warmer!) There is not a lot of storage space in the container, so we usually pack light and leave the bulk of our stuff in the car, parking is 10 feet away. Just bring in the essentials, keep the place orderly and it's more comfortable. No smoking inside, plenty of room to smoke around the campfire outside...
A Jackery battery pack provides electricity for charging phones, etc. It's not enough juice to run a hairdryer, but plenty for your phones—and the record player! You will get two bars of LTE cell service across the property, but the steel walls of the container make it not so good indoors. (Put your phone by the window and use a headset or speakerphone.)
The other three containers are set on the opposite side of the property. The driveway divides them and each are completely private. (We designed it that way.)
Saugerties is a gem. Miss Lucy's (dinner), The Dutch (drinks), Circle W General Store (breakfast/lunch) Love Bites (breakfast) and Silvia or Good Night (fancy!). Walking to the lighthouse is a must, as is hiking to Kaaterskill Falls, Huckleberry Point and North and South Lakes. Hunter Mountain is also 30 minutes away for skiers. Food shopping and farm stands are 10-15 min away.
Guest access
The cabin is all yours, as is the 10 acres on your side of the driveway.
Other things to note
All guests bring ice and bundles of firewood. Firewood is available for purchase on the driveway. (Save your firewood for the woodstove inside; use wood from the forest for the campfire outside.)
The bathroom is a separate building about 30 feet away. It has tons of natural light, a translucent roof and walls, pine paneling, an open shower stall with a slate floor. The shower is a simple camping-style battery-operated shower that you fill with hot water. (Heat it on the stove.) It takes some work fetching water, heating it and setting it up, so don't arrive expecting to have a shower right out of the car. There is also a mini propane heater in the bathroom for showering if you need it.
