Wedding DJ at Camp Bluestone in Thompson, PA

The Space

Camp Bluestone sits on 2 acres in the Endless Mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania, built around a restored 1,200 square foot barn with its original wood beams left in place. The property reads as a working vacation rental turned event venue rather than a hall built from scratch for weddings, which shows in details like the reclaimed wood furniture and the barn’s original bones still visible in the finished space.

Beyond the barn, an 850 square foot open-air pavilion houses an outdoor kitchen and farmhouse tables, and the property includes fields, a hillside meadow, and multiple fire pit areas with Adirondack seating scattered across the grounds. Hilltop Hall, the main house, sits on a deck overlooking the Endless Mountains, and four studio cabins plus a glamping tent give the property real texture beyond a single event room.

Capacity & Layout

Camp Bluestone seats 30 to 150 guests and can hold up to 200 standing, a range wide enough to cover an intimate elopement or a full wedding without the couple needing to book a different property for a smaller event. Ceremony sites include the fields, the hillside meadow, or inside the barn itself, and the reception typically runs in either the barn or the 850 square foot pavilion.

Included furnishings, chairs and tables built from reclaimed wood, along with heaters, firepits, and string lights, mean a couple is not sourcing basic rental furniture separately from the venue itself. Because both the barn and the pavilion are available as reception space, a couple can pick indoor coverage in the barn or the more open, garden-party feel of the pavilion depending on guest count and season.

Amenities

Wedding packages include Hilltop Hall’s bridal suite, great room, kitchen, and viewing deck for all-weekend use from Friday through Sunday, turning the wedding into a genuine weekend rather than a single-day rental. On-site accommodations total 24 guests across four studio cabins, Hilltop Hall, and a luxury glamping tent, letting the wedding party and close family actually stay on the property instead of driving in each day.

The outdoor kitchen and BBQ area, with both propane and charcoal grills, supports catering directly on site, and the open-air pavilion includes propane heaters that keep it usable year-round rather than just in warm months. Lawn games, cornhole, ladder ball, and darts, plus multiple fire pit areas with Adirondack seating, give guests things to do across a full weekend stay, not just during the ceremony and reception itself.

Location & Getting There

Camp Bluestone sits in Thompson, Pennsylvania, less than ten miles from Elk Mountain Ski Resort and about one mile from the D&H Rail-Trail’s Ararat trailhead, both real draws for a wedding weekend built around more than just the ceremony. Large on-site parking accommodates event guests directly, and the property operates year-round, so a late fall or winter wedding is genuinely on the table here, not just a summer season.

Because the studio cabins, Hilltop Hall, and glamping tent are all on the same 2-acre property as the barn and pavilion, guests staying overnight do not have to drive anywhere once the reception ends. Indoors, the restored barn’s original wood beams and enclosed walls give a DJ a defined, covered room for dinner and dancing, while the open-air pavilion trades that enclosure for mountain air, meaning sound has to be set and monitored differently depending on which of the two spaces hosts the reception.