What Happened to Pinehurst's Country Lodge? (Greeley, PA)

Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) traveled to Pinehurst's Country Lodge in Greeley, Pennsylvania, for the episode "Lost in the Woods," which aired June 9, 2013. According to the Pike County Courier, owners Roger and Sandy Murray had bought the lodge restaurant about eight months earlier after relocating from the New York metropolitan area, and the business was struggling in a seasonal tourism market where sales rose in peak months and fell off the rest of the year. As shown in the episode, host Robert Irvine examined the menu, decor, wait staff, kitchen cleanliness and general business practices, working within the show's standard format of roughly 36 hours and a $10,000 budget to renovate the restaurant, located at 108 Greeley Lake Road.

A public grand reopening event was held on March 28, 2013, with reservations arranged through the restaurant directly, ahead of the episode's broadcast that June. In the months right after the show, local coverage described a temporary increase in sales and more favorable customer feedback compared with before the visit. That improvement did not hold long-term. A fan site blog reported around October 2015 that Pinehurst Country Lodge had closed, attributing the closure to a combination of factors including regional economic conditions, local taxes, and the closing of a nearby state route that the fan site said had cut off a significant share of the restaurant's customer base; those specific causes have not been independently confirmed by a named local news outlet.

What is independently confirmable is the business's more recent status: a Yelp listing for Pinehurst Country Lodge, updated as recently as June 2025, marks the restaurant permanently closed at the Greeley Lake Road address. No subsequent reopening or change of ownership at the property has been identified.