Unique Adirondack Experiences
Explore our range of offerings from Experience Dinners to Nutritional Energetics Workshops.
Whether you're staying with us, in the area, or live locally, you can enjoy unique ways to discover the Adirondacks with family or friends.
Taste. Explore. Reconnect.
For nearly 140 years and generations of family, we have catered to the public as one of the last original Adirondack Great Camps still open to the public with a 1920s Speakeasy. This enables us to provide you with authentic experiences, both new and timeless, in a stunning setting.
- Taste your way through Adirondack History with Culinary Experiences and a 1920s Speakeasy.
- Explore an authentic horse-drawn Stagecoach or Wagon Ride on our 25-acres.
- Reconnect with your nature through wellness classes and workshops.
But that's not all: from History of Beer Tastings and Cooking Demonstrations, we're just getting started! View our weekly schedule.
Destination Experiences
Where you can taste and laugh through living Adirondack history with family and friends with Stagecoach Rides, Speakeasy Dinners, History of Beer Tastings, Traditional Foods Cooking Demos and so much more.
- Join us where your experience is as expansive as you want to make it.
- Simply come for one of our Experience Dinners or stay in one of our hand-crafted lodgings.
- Either way, you can throw away the keys for a memory-filled moment and immerse in one of the last Adirondack Great Camps open to the public.
Experience Schedule
Upcoming Special Events
Thursdays
Myths & Legends of Ancient Tonics
Myths & Legends of Ancient Tonics
Tonics from the gods, the elixir's by the ancient shamans, rations for the pyramids, beer as gold, a savior of the people. Join us for a 30-minute tasting and exploration of the myths and legends of ancient tonics and how they shaped what we drink today.
History of Food Tasting Experience
History of Food Tasting Experience
Taste your way through history with a five-course dinner! Our expanded History of Food reaches back to the origins of various foods, how food shaped history, the myths and legends of their healing power, and how the hunt for certain foods formed the quest for world discovery, created our way of life, and associations with people and cultures.
Fridays
Old World Favorites Cooking Demonstration
Old World Favorites Cooking Demonstration
Several generations of Hohmeyer chefs are part of a centuries-long Old World culinary lineage dating back to medieval times. Explore seasonal themes from spaetzle to strudels via an interactive 30-minute cooking demo with recipes and how-tos.
History of Octoberfest Beer Workshop & Tasting
History of Octoberfest Beer Workshop & Tasting
Join Ernest Hohmeyer for a 30-minute experience about the history of Octoberfest beer, replete with a tasting of 6 beers from around the world!
Taste of Germany Experience Dinner
Taste of Germany Experience Dinner
Start off in the 1920s Speakeasy Rathskeller, explore the hidden Beer & Wine Cellar with a large variety of Old World Wines and Beers from around the world. Savor authentic German dishes from Ernest’s side of the family from Heritage Chicken Schnitzel to Old World Roulade.
Saturdays
Covered Wagon Ride
Covered Wagon Ride
Ride a Pioneer Wagon with Lucky Clover Farm and authentic draft horses through the woods and to the shores of Lake Clear.
History of Octoberfest Beer Workshop & Tasting
History of Octoberfest Beer Workshop & Tasting
Join Ernest Hohmeyer for a 30-minute experience about the history of Octoberfest beer, replete with a tasting of 6 beers from around the world!
Specialty Stagecoach Ride & Taste of Germany Experience Dinner
Specialty Stagecoach Ride & Taste of Germany Experience Dinner
Ride in an authentic 1800s Stagecoach through our nature trails and to the shores of Lake Clear – but beware, you may be robbed! Find the hidden door to the 1920s Speakeasy; be sure you know the password to get in. Explore our hand-crafted Wine & Beer Cellar. Savor a Taste of Germany Dinner in our hand-hewn 1886 Stagecoach Dining Room.
Taste of Germany Experience Dinner
Taste of Germany Experience Dinner
Start off in the 1920s Speakeasy Rathskeller, explore the hidden Beer & Wine Cellar with a large variety of Old World Wines and Beers from around the world. Savor authentic German dishes from Ernest’s side of the family from Heritage Chicken Schnitzel to Old World Roulade.
Get In Touch With Us
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