Spring availability — including Spring Break week. Special “friends of Listings Project” rate.
If you’ve caught yourself daydreaming about escaping the city lately—too many screens, too much rushing, not enough space to breathe—you’re not alone.
Sometimes the simplest reset is a week somewhere quieter.
Just two hours from NYC, this 105-acre Catskills retreat offers the kind of space that helps people slow down again: open fields, forest trails, and a light-filled mid-century home designed for gathering, rest, and creativity.
The 4-bedroom, 3-bath house sits on a hillside overlooking the valley. Inside, the home spans three levels with three inviting living areas, a wood-burning fireplace, and doors that open to nature from nearly every room.
Life here unfolds differently.
Mornings begin with coffee overlooking the hills while kids head outside to explore. Afternoons bring long walks through the woods or nearby hikes. Evenings gather naturally around shared meals, games, and the warmth of the fire.
There’s space for friends to reconnect, kids to roam, dogs to run, and quiet corners to read, write, or create.
You’re also minutes from some of the Catskills’ most beautiful nature—Minnewaska State Park and Mohonk Preserve—along with swimming spots, farm stands, and great local food.
A place for families, artists, nature lovers, and friends, this is a home meant for slowing down and remembering what it feels like to breathe a little deeper.
Available weekly through June. If a week in nature sounds like what you need right now, reach out with your dates and tell us a little about your group.
Lianna Willoughby is the founder of Retreat East Co, the nature-immersed gathering space in this listing. Her vision for the property is to be a place for people to slow down, reconnect, and come together through nature, creativity, and well-being.
Beyond Retreat East Co., Lianna is a Jin Shin Jyutsu energy healer, an ops consultant for purpose-led businesses, and a mother of two spirited boys—roles that deeply inform her life mission. At the heart of Lianna Willoughby’s work—is a belief that when people feel grounding, and alignment, they naturally show up with more ease, creativity and joy. Lianna creates spaces and flows—both physical and energetic—that help people slow down, calm the nervous system and return to their worlds with greater harmony and intention.
Friends have access to optional offerings such as a private chef, in-home yoga sessions, sound baths, and forest bathing.
Rather than a prescriptive retreat, the Retreat East Co property offers a beautiful, flexible setting where time slows and experiences unfold naturally—through shared meals, long walks, creative work, and meaningful conversation.
Maximum occupancy: 8 guests
Cleaning fee: $225 (added to booking total)
No smoking indoors - including vaping
No parties or large events (the home is best suited for quiet gatherings)
Children welcome
Fires permitted in fireplace and fire pit only (weather permitting; never unattended)
Outdoor shoes off indoors
Pets welcome with approval and subject to pet fee