The Palyul Retreat Center is located on an old farm among state forests in upstate New York. Because of weather patterns affected by the Great Lakes, Catskills and relative proximity to Canada, the temperature varies unpredictably even in summer. You could experience chilly evenings and perhaps even chilly, overcast, rainy days. Accommodations in summer months are in comfortable, but unheated, dormitories or platform tents.
Most housing is a short walk from the central dining, bath house and practice facilities.
If you have health problems or special needs which would make this kind of dorm living difficult, please let us know well in advance, as alternatives are limited. All accommodations are shared with one other person. Platform tent users will be provided one mattress per roommate. The tents are roomy and tall. At this point, because of the number of retreatants who would like to participate and the limitations imposed on the retreat center by the Department of Health, the monks will require two persons per tent.