Spillian’s Mythic Catskills Weekends are an intersection with the essence of the Catskills: the forests, the mountains, the people, the deep stories that make this place so compelling. Each weekend celebrates a facet of this gem-like place: its food, its fish and streams, its ringing summer, its snow-spangled winters, its flowing creative life force. Come for a weekend of grand adventure. Feast. Explore. Hear the great stories and share your own.  Revel in the mythic possibility of the Catskills and find where it sings in your life – and then bring that song back home with you.

Sometimes we head out into the mountains, on a themed adventure to farms, forests, or distilleries with local expert guides; some weekends we celebrate an idea or a bit of history or story through creative workshops. Mythic Catskills Weekends might include local food and libations tastings, foraging walks or hikes, moving meditations, cooking classes, live music, and writing or creating. And on Saturday night, we gather for a special dinner around Spillian’s iconic grand table celebrating the flavors of the mountains and the theme we’re exploring together.

Spillian is an extraordinary 1880’s Gilded Age mansion built by the Fleischmanns Yeast family as a summer retreat. This archetypal Catskills estate has brought family, friends, and dreamers together for over a hundred years. Spillian is a portal for imagining, grounded deeply both in a sense of place and of play. Our dream is that everyone who engages with us will step back into their lives empowered to bring creative energy into their work, their relationships, and the world. We offer workshops, curated weekends celebrating the Catskills, weddings and celebrations, and special events, all born in a spirit of deep co-creation with our stakeholders, our clients, our community, and our landscape.