Welcome to Woodchuck Lodge, Home of John Burroughs
“These hills fathered and mothered me. I am blood of their blood and bone of their bone, and why should I not go back to them in my last years?”
John Burroughs, Literary Naturalist, 1910
Woodchuck Lodge was built by John's brother in 1862, 15 years after John was born, on the east end of the Burroughs family farm. The Burroughs' homestead where both boys grew up is a mile away up the road and was built when John was 13 years of age. Woodchuck Lodge was John's retreat in retirement.
The View From The Porch
Woodchuck Lodge opened for the year on May 4th, 2019 with our first Wild Saturday event at 1pm. Leslie T. Sharpe spoke to a large gathering on wildlife in the Catskills.
John Burroughs
Join the John Burroughs Association! Offering John Burroughs Literary Awards, maintains Slabsides, Burroughs’ Hudson River retreat, and the surrounding John Burroughs Nature Sanctuary.