Cedar Lakes Estate hosts company retreats, leadership offsites, workshops and wedding weekends, with exclusive use of a 500-acre property and accommodation for guests on site. Its indoor spaces include a 6,200-square-foot barn, a glasshouse that seats 100 for dinner and a conference room for six. The estate lies at 1 Team USA Way, Port Jervis, in the Hudson Valley of New York, about an hour and a half from New York City.
Seminars and company events
The estate sells group retreats built around work sessions, meals and time outdoors. The Glasshouse, a glass-enclosed room overlooking the lake, is used for workshops, breakout sessions and cocktail hours, and seats 100 for dinner. The Barn, temperature controlled with floor-to-ceiling glass, takes larger working sessions and is furnished with barnwood tables and cross-back chairs. The Treehouse Conference Room has a glass table with six executive chairs for a board meeting, and the Treehouse next to it serves as a lounge by day and a bar in the evening.
Outdoors, the Amphitheater, a restored 90-year-old deck with tiered benches above the lake, suits a keynote or welcome speech. The Mountaintop, a meadow facing the Shawangunk Mountains with a stone fire pit, is used for sunrise yoga. Team activities include hiking, canoeing, cooking and mixology classes, and outdoor movie nights.
Weddings and receptions
The estate hosts a limited number of weddings each year, with exclusive access to the property for the weekend. Ceremony sites are the Amphitheater on the lake, the Mountaintop, the Glasshouse, which has radiant-heated floors for any season, and the Winter Garden, lit by 15,000 white lights. Receptions use the Barn, with crystal chandeliers and a 24-foot bar, the Pavilion, the Barn Patio and the Chef's Garden. The Glasshouse seats 100 for a rehearsal dinner.
Rooms and capacities
The Barn covers 6,200 square feet. The Barn Patio adds a 3,000-square-foot bluestone terrace above the lake, large enough for a tent. The Pavilion is open-air with removable walls, permanent heaters and a central stone fire pit. The Chef's Garden covers 4,000 square feet around a long farm table. The estate does not publish a maximum capacity for the Barn; ask the team for your layout.
Accommodation
Guests stay in cottages, houses and cabins spread across the grounds. They range from studio cottages with king beds and fireplaces (Lakeside, Bluebird and Poolside) to the ten Sleepy Pine Cottages, the Garden Cottages, the four-bedroom Farmhouse Main House, the two-bedroom Farmhouse Patio Suite, Spruce House with four bedrooms, Maple House with five, the Field House, Birch House and the Perch and Sunfish Cabins, each with four lofted queen beds. The total number of beds is not published. Lakes, pools, trails, tennis and basketball courts are on site.
Catering
Food is cooked from scratch on site, with produce from the estate's Chef's Garden and from small local farms. Menus follow the seasons, and the beverage program covers wine, beer and seasonal cocktails.
History and setting
In 1929 the New York City Mission Society, with several Harlem churches, opened Camp Minisink here, a summer camp for African American children that ran for 50 years. The Karvellas family bought the land in 1986 and opened Team USA Gymnastics and Soccer Camp in 1991. Sisters Stephanie and Lisa Karvellas founded Cedar Lakes Estate in 2011, adding cottages, the barn and event spaces.
Getting there
The estate is in the Black Dirt Region of the Hudson Valley, about 90 minutes by road from New York City. Port Jervis has a commuter rail station, and Stewart International Airport is the nearest airport.
