Is Double "H" Ranch Still Open? Restaurant: Impossible (FN) Update

Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) departed from its usual small-business format for the episode "Holiday: Impossible," which aired December 8, 2014, centering on Double "H" Ranch, a nonprofit, year-round camp in Lake Luzerne, New York, serving children with serious and life-threatening illnesses. The camp was founded in 1992 by Charles R. Wood and the actor Paul Newman. Rather than rescuing a struggling independent restaurant, Robert Irvine and his team took on what the show described as the largest dining and kitchen space renovation attempted in the series to that point, working within the show's standard multi-day production window to rebuild the camp's dining hall ahead of a holiday event for campers and their families.

Because Double H Ranch operates as a charitable camp rather than a commercial restaurant, its continued operation is not measured the same way as the other businesses researched in the show: it does not depend on paying customers or menu revenue, and the show's renovation supported the camp's existing food-service operation for campers rather than launching or rescuing a public dining business. Double H Ranch remains an active organization as of 2026, based on an ActivityHero listing showing 2026 camp schedules and a current business listing maintained by the Lake George Regional Chamber of Commerce. The camp's Facebook and Instagram accounts, both maintained under the ranch's own name, showed activity consistent with ongoing operations at the time of this research.

No source found indicated a closure, relocation, or change in the organization managing the camp since the episode aired. Because this entry describes a nonprofit camp's dining facility rather than a public restaurant, and it does not accept walk-in diners, this record should not be read against the kind of independent restaurant reviews available for the other businesses in this collection. The camp's street address used in this record could not be independently confirmed through the two web searches performed for it and should be treated as approximate pending direct confirmation from the organization's own materials.