Cedar Lakes Estate

Character and identity

Cedar Lakes Estate sprawls across 500 wooded acres outside Port Jervis, a 15-minute drive from town and reachable from Manhattan via NJ Transit and Metro-North. The property leans hard into grown-up summer camp: 36 cottages, cabins and houses scattered along gravel paths plied by golf carts, a main pavilion with exposed wooden rafters, a private lake with rowboats and a zip-line water blob, pickleball, hiking trails, and a productive kitchen garden. Interiors run farmhouse-chic with bearskin rugs, wood-burning fireplaces and wraparound porches. The headline dining event is Cedar Lake Suppers, a seasonal prix-fixe series built around heirloom produce. Service is local, young and notably unfussed.

Who's it for

Bottom line

What you're really booking is a 500-acre private playground where the brief is to put the phone down and get outside, with cottages comfortable enough to make rainy afternoons feel like a feature. Summer is the obvious sweet spot, winter brings snowshoeing and skating; book Bluebird Cottage if it's a couple's escape, or one of the larger houses for a family takeover.