Trumansburg · Finger Lakes · New York
Sleep suspended
in the pines.
Tree tents hung between thirty-foot jack pines, two people each, with your own fire pit below and a Certified Wildlife Habitat all around. Open May through October.
Camp SkyTent
A forest planted for telephone poles. Repurposed for sleeping.
Decades ago, someone planted this stand of jack pines to become telephone poles. Nobody ever cut them, so they just kept growing — and now they hold our tents instead. Each SkyTent is a suspended Tentsile tent strung taut between trunks, with a floor that gives like a firm trampoline. Guests come down in the morning saying it's the best sleep they've had outdoors.
The woods themselves are a Certified Wildlife Habitat. That's not decoration — it means the forest floor stays wild, the birds stay loud, and the fireflies come up out of the meadow at dusk in early summer. We put up a handful of tents each spring and take them down each fall; the forest keeps the rest of the year for itself.
The Sites
Four sites, each with its own corner of the woods
Every site sleeps two and comes with its own fire pit, Adirondack chairs, and a first bundle of firewood on us. Book one site — or take the whole camp for your group.
TreeTopper
The high one — ten feet up among the treetops, with a rope ladder to climb and a hammock rigged underneath for the afternoon. The most asked-for site, and honestly not for the unfit: if climbing a rope ladder to bed sounds like a chore rather than the whole point, pick one of the lower tents.
StarGazer
A secluded clearing with the fire pit set up for two and a long view up through the canopy — the site for the night you actually want to watch the sky.
Fern Gully
Tucked low where the ferns grow thick — the greenest, most enclosed site, and the quietest.
Willow
An easy, lower tent near the trail — the gentlest climb in, and a good first tree-tent night.
Picked your tent?
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And for tents plus the houses, the whole property books as the
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A Look Around
The camp, this season.
Worth Knowing
It's real camping — the good kind.
You'll park in the designated area and walk three to seven minutes along maintained trails to your site. A clean outhouse serves the camp, there's a solar shower for rinsing off the day, and a hose for everything else — washing up, filling bottles, dousing the fire. Bring your own bedding — sleeping bags are the move, one each, since the tent floor cradles you a little like a hammock. Cell service reaches the woods, though most people are glad to ignore it.
The camp shares the land with Farm Manor and Barn Manor, whose guests walk the same pine trails — we ask them to pass quietly and give you your privacy, and we ask the same of you near the houses. Quiet hours are 10 PM to 7 AM across the whole property.
- Own fire pit & chairs at every site · first firewood bundle free
- Clean outhouse · solar shower · hose for washing up
- Bring bedding — sleeping bags recommended
- Open May 1 – October 31
Where You Are
Deep enough in the woods. Close enough to everything.
- Taughannock Falls — about five minutes
- Trumansburg village — a few minutes; food, coffee, the Grassroots grounds
- Ithaca, Cornell & Ithaca College — about twenty minutes
- Cayuga Lake & the wine trail — minutes away
- State parks, gorges & swimming holes — all around you
Book Direct
Book with us and skip the platform fees.
The same tents cost less booked directly — no service fees, and you're talking to the people who hang the tents each spring. Pick your site and your nights below.
Prefer to book through a platform — or want to read our guests' reviews first? Every site is on Airbnb: TreeTopper · StarGazer · Fern Gully · Willow · the whole camp — and the camp is also on Hipcamp.
Follow the camp on Instagram @CampSkyTent · perrycitymanorsllc@gmail.com or (607) 288-2437