It’s the time of year for s’mores and snuggling by a fire, and at these five cozy escapes — four new, and one pulling out the stops for its 200th anniversary — you can make the most of the season.

Wander snowy trails and savor hearty cuisine at a boutique hotel in the Catskills, taste wine and play board games at a stylish ranch by Yosemite National Park, even learn the art of yodeling at a hideaway in the Austrian Alps.

From a handsome room for two at a Victorian hotel in Ireland to a contemporary mountain home for the whole family in Montana, you just might find yourself wishing for winter to last.

Big Sky, Mont.: Montage Big Sky’s Mountain Homes

These sprawling new five- and six-bedroom homes for families and groups are set amid firs, spruces and no shortage of skiable acres. Bright and contemporary, they include hotel amenities like housekeeping and concierge services as well as features found in luxury vacation homes: ski mudrooms with lockers and boot dryers, fireplaces, outdoor hot tubs, saunas, wet bars, indoor and outdoor entertaining areas, two living rooms, master suites with fireplaces and balconies, kitchens and laundry rooms.

Currently, six “mountain homes” are available through Montage Big Sky’s rental program. Views of the forests and slopes can be had from their floor-to-ceiling windows. All have ski-in, ski-out connections to trails that provide access to Big Sky Resort’s nearly 6,000 skiable acres.

There are kitchens, of course, but don’t let that stop you from trying the resort’s restaurants, including Cortina for Northern Italian cuisine, or Alpenglow for cocktails, beer and live music. Challenge your housemates to a game at the bowling alley at Beartooth Pub & Rec. Book a spa treatment, or work out at the fitness center or indoor lap pool. Prices from $10,500 a night for the mountain homes. (From $1,600 for the resort rooms.)

The Catskills, N.Y.: The Henson

This 16 room-and-suite boutique hotel, about 21/2 hours north of Manhattan in Hensonville, N.Y., beckons with wood-burning fireplaces and views of the Black Dome valley and nearby Windham Mountain, where you can ski, whiz down a slope in a snow tube, and try “snowga” snowshoe and yoga trekking. (Winter sports also abound at Hunter Mountain, about 10 minutes away.)

The building was being used as a hotel as early as 1918, and woodwork, antiques and candlelight make spaces like the library and communal living room feel as if you’re in a private home. Linger by the fire with a book, board game or glass of wine. Warm up in the infrared sauna. On a clear day, take in the surrounding hills and peaks from the rooftop deck where there’s a heater above the large sofa.

Begin with breakfast at the hotel’s Restaurant Matilda, where a seasonal menu has dishes like smoked steelhead trout and locally sourced cured meats and cheeses. In the evenings, try wood-grilled oysters with bone marrow, pumpkin seed oil and purple sorrel, served with thick cuts of bacon. Beginning in January, a rotating après-ski menu at the bar inside Restaurant Matilda will offer temptations such as smoked eel takoyaki and cassoulet. Chefs Jeremiah Stone and Fabián von Hauske Valtierra, of Wildair and Contra in New York (and also among the owners of the Henson), have another restaurant a two-minute walk from the hotel called the Day June Luncheonette, for diner-style breakfast and lunch.

At the end of the day, buy a s’mores kit at the hotel and head to the fire pit. Whichever room you’re staying in will have warm hues, Frette linens and Marshall speakers. Some also have outdoor space. Prices from $279 a night.

Groveland, Calif.: Firefall Ranch

Less than half an hour from Yosemite National Park’s Big Oak Flat Entrance, this new upscale ranch has 55 cottages and villas on what, according to the property, was a stop on the stagecoach route to Yosemite in the 1870s. And while the ranch offers various Yosemite excursions (for a fee), Firefall has some 300 acres of its own hills and meadowland to explore. After hiking its forested trails, indulge in s’mores at its pond-side fire pits.

A guest lounge has a double-sided fireplace and leather couches, along with books, puzzles, word games and craft-making. Try your luck on the mini golf course or the disc golf course. Next year, the ranch plans to offer horseback riding as well. Operated by First Light Resorts (which has two other lodges nearby), the property is named for the firefall phenomenon in February when, if the conditions are right, the setting sun illuminates Yosemite’s Horsetail Fall, making it look as if it’s an orange stream flowing down the wall of El Capitan.

Before heading to Yosemite, pop into the General Store for sandwiches, pastries and other items. After a day in the park, YOVA, the hotel restaurant, will warm you up with a menu that includes grilled focaccia and salmon satays. Try the Tavern for easygoing dining, beginning with breakfasts like huevos rancheros and avocado toast.

Retreat to your villa or cottage (from one to three bedrooms) with touches of wood and heated bathroom floors, where you can relax by a double-sided indoor-outdoor fireplace and check out the stars from a covered deck. Prices from $650 in the offseason (November through March) and from $850 in peak season (April through October).

Ehrwald, Austria: Eriro

Wintertime arrivals at this new luxury getaway in the Tyrolean Alps — at an elevation of more than 5,000 feet — begin at a cable car where you’re escorted up a mountain, followed by a brief snowmobile ride. Upon reaching the hotel you’ll find just nine suites yet plenty of ways to immerse yourself in the outdoors: hiking, skiing, even yodeling. The hotel’s architecture and design reflect its breathtaking forest surroundings, with materials like stone and natural fibers. Elegant wood-filled rooms are minimalist yet warm, inviting the outside in through floor-to-ceiling windows.

Guides can teach you about local traditions and craftsmanship, including wood carving, snowshoeing and star gazing. Unwind in one of three hot water relaxation pools, including a pool with views over the valley, and a cave-like pool with floating beds. Get a massage, practice yoga or try sound therapy as you recline by a screen showing nature footage.

Meals are also atmospheric, prepared on an open fireplace in the restaurant where you can try grilled dishes such as local butterfly-cut char with basil oil and tomato sugo. Prices from $1,677 a night per suite, which includes meals and most beverages, mountain cable car tickets, ski passes, some hotel activities, winter sports equipment and use of the pools and saunas.

Dublin: The Shelbourne

The year 2024 marked the 200th anniversary of this opulent 265-room-and-suite hotel in Ireland’s capital, where in 1922 a committee drafted what would become the country’s first constitution (you can see the table on which it was signed in the hotel’s “constitution room”). To celebrate, this brick hotel with fireplaces and stained glass has hung 200 wreaths on its exterior, trimmed 32 Christmas trees and decorated with 426 feet of garland.

Dating to 1824 (the hotel says guests have included William Makepeace Thackeray and John F. Kennedy), the Shelbourne is the place to go to relish old world traditions, including a “festive afternoon tea” in the Lord Mayor’s Lounge where you’ll find a harpist and a menu offering savory (oak-smoked salmon) and sweet (cheesecake with Achill Island sea salt caramel sauce, praline and Chantilly cream, served in a chocolate pot); 75 euros a person (about $79). There’s also a children’s afternoon tea (39 euros a person, about $41). The 2025 afternoon tea menu includes feta and tomato on pumpkin seed bread, golden raisin buttermilk scones and citrus macaroons.

The Shelbourne’s location on St. Stephen’s Green makes it easy to set off on a wintry stroll through the park, or to explore the festive shops on Grafton Street as well as Dublin’s museums and Trinity College. But you need not go anywhere to experience the romance of the season.

Get cozy on a velvet couch amid shelves of books in the dim, wood-paneled 1824 Bar. Sip a warm drink like the Irish whiskey- and coconut-based “white elephant” in the Saddle Room. Or settle in for a whiskey tasting at the Horseshoe Bar with its leather seating and sinuous brass-trimmed bar.

Prices from 399 euros a night (about $412) in January and February, which includes breakfast. (Suites are half off for stays from Jan. 5 through March 3 and include breakfast, parking and use of the health club and swimming pool.)