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Skytop Lodge Gun Club + Sporting Clays Weekend — Skytop, PA — Skytop, PA
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Skytop Lodge Gun Club + Sporting Clays Weekend — Skytop, PA

Destination: Skytop, PANights: 3Group: 8–24Season: April, May, June, September, October, NovemberEstimated: $2,800–$4,400/person

1928 Dutch Colonial grand resort on 5,500 acres — Historic Hotels of America, AAA 4-Diamond. Skytop's Shooting Center runs sporting clays, 5-Stand, wobble trap, and intro shotgun on a dedicated ground a half-mile from the main lodge. Day-one half-day flush, then a fly fishing afternoon on private Skytop Lake (rainbows, browns, brookies). Dinner in the Main Dining Room (jacket required), bourbons after at the Pub & Grill. Day two: 18 holes at the 1928 mountaintop course followed by archery and a vintage 1930s ice cream soda shop pit stop for the crew that needs a sugar break. Allentown (ABE) is the regional fly; Newark (EWR) is the commercial 2-hour drive.

What You'll Do

Shooting Range

Fishing

Golf

Scenic Overlook

Where You Sleep

  • · Skytop Lodge (185 rooms + cottages on the manor grounds)

Where You Eat

  • · Main Dining Room (jacket at dinner)
  • · Lakeview Restaurant (terrace)
  • · Pub & Grill (clubhouse)
  • · 1930s Soda Shop (pit stop)

Questions

Is the shooting school actually private?
Yes — Skytop Shooting Center runs as a separate facility within the resort. Group bookings include exclusive use of the sporting clays course for a half- or full-day.
How is the lake fishing?
Skytop Lake is private to guests — stocked with rainbow, brown, and brookie. Fly-only on the upper reaches; spinning gear on the main lake.
Group rates?
Lodge runs group blocks under their meeting & events team — packages bundle gun club access, dining plan, golf. Minimum 15-room block typically.
Vs the Greenbrier?
Skytop is a quarter the price, half the drive from NYC, comparable shooting program, no casino, no Cold War history. Greenbrier is the apex; Skytop is the East Coast legend at half the cost.

Ready to book the story?

Five quick questions, then we build the full itinerary — lodging, daily schedule, dining, bars, the group-chat message — and drop you into a Trip Room you can share with the crew.