hotelHotel Impossible · Season 4, Episode 7 · Aired April 28, 2014
Catskill Mountain Lodge
Palenville, New York
Still open. It kept its doors open after the show.
What happened after
Riverside lodge, #1 of 1 hotel in the Catskill Region/Palenville per TripAdvisor; current ownership completed renovations per recent reviews.
What happened on the show
Up in the Catskills hamlet of Palenville, the Catskill Mountain Lodge was a riverside property that essentially defined lodging in its immediate area, ranked as the sole hotel in its little corner of the region. The episode, Temper Expectations, hinted at friction between what the lodge promised and what guests actually found. A destination lodge in a scenic but low-traffic area depends on being a reliable base for weddings, weekends and mountain getaways, so any gap between expectation and reality directly costs bookings. Melchiorri examined how the rooms and the welcome held up at the Route 32A property, prodding ownership to align the offer with the setting and deliver the mountain-retreat stay travelers came for. His verdict landed where the format's verdicts usually did for a scenic-but-remote property: sell the setting honestly, run the operation with discipline, and give guests a stay that matches the Catskills escape they booked.
After the cameras left
The Catskill Mountain Lodge is still operating on its riverside grounds. As of our 2026 pass the lodge is open, ranked as the top hotel in its immediate area, with recent reviews noting that current ownership has completed renovations, and a three-and-a-half-star average across roughly two hundred entries. We could not reach its main review-site page directly, which returned an access error, so the status rests on search-level sourcing and we log it as confirmed operating with medium confidence. Last confirmed active in our 2026 check.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.