Dubois Farms is a welcoming, family-friendly farm in the Hudson Valley that appeals to weekend road-trippers when summer comes to an end. If you’re craving an autumn day out with family or friends, Dubois Farms, north of Manhattan, is a haven of fall fun, with a corn maze, farm animals, apple cider donuts, and a tavern selling the farm’s own wine and...
Hank’s Pumpkintown, NY is one of the best places for fall family fun with a corn maze, pumpkin patch, apple picking, and great rides and games for all ages.
After the icy New York winter, the annual Sakura Matsuri Brooklyn Cherry Blossom Festival at the BBG (Brooklyn Botanical Gardens) lights up the trees and hearts of New Yorkers. Starting from mid-March and usually peaking in the middle of April, the bare branches are replaced with white, Fuschia, and pink crepe flowers. A festival of flowers and color Traditionally...
Each February, the Lake George Winter Carnival transforms the icy Adirondacks township into a mecca of wintry fun and food. In summer, Lake George and the Adirondacks attract vacationers to the pristine wilderness, blue waters, and great outdoors. In winter, Lake George comes into its own. The beaches and waters freeze into a thick ice expanse that can hold...
Palenville NY is a tiny upstate hamlet in the Catskills that has a legitimate literary claim to fame – the place where Rip Van Winkle lived. Many of the townships of the Catskills like to lay claim to being the setting for Rip Van Winkle – especially the town of Catskill and its nearby road bridge over the Hudson River – Rip Van Winkle Bridge. But...
Woodstock, New York, isn’t the Woodstock you think about when you are talking about three days of peace, love, and music, avoiding the brown acid and Hendrix regaling hundreds of thousands in the early morning with a politically charged version of the Star Spangled Banner. This isn’t THAT Woodstock New York (yet it is kind of) That’s the Woodstock festival grounds...
Ice fishing in the Adirondacks on a frozen lake is something we’d always wanted to try. It always seemed so foreign and exotic growing up reading about Inuit families fishing through holes in the ice in picture books and National Geographic magazines and then later seeing travel documentaries of Americans and Canadians fishing from the cozy comfort of heated tents...
Take a NY winter break and experience the relaxing qualities a Catskills getaway offers. Curled up by a fireplace in a log cabin in the Catskills sounds like the perfect to wait out the brutal winter snowstorms that hit the northeast of the tri-state. Hidden away beyond a hamlet in the middle of the Catskills New York, just minutes from the ski fields of Belleayre...
Phoenicia, NY is a small but popular hamlet in New York’s Catskills that attracts day-trippers and weekenders all year round for its fly fishing, winter sports, and in summer, camping and white-water tubing. Situated about two and a half hours from Manhattan by car, the only other way to get to Phoenicia is by a Trailways Coach, which departs from the Port Authority...
Get ready for things to get a little spooky with Watt Where How’s Top Things to do in Sleepy Hollow. Sleepy Hollow the book, the movie, the legend, and the small town in Westchester County, New York, all owe their fame to author Washington Irving – but there’s more than just haunting tales of pumpkin slinging horsemen to attract you. Top things to do in Sleepy...