Roscoe
Catskill
Hudson
Saugerties
Kingston
Rhinebeck
Hyde Park
West Point
High Falls
New Paltz
Windham
Hunter
Phoenicia
Woodstock
Jeffersonville
Williamstown/
North Adams
Lenox
Lee
Stockbridge
Great Barrington
Lakeville
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Beautiful country. Enchanting towns. Outdoor adventure.
Gourmet dining. Superb shopping--the romance of it all is only
a couple hours away, in “NYC Getaways” territory.
Planning your mini-vacation is easy. Start here,
decide where you want to go, choose the
perfect place to stay, and explore.
Drawing Date: August 1, 2009
Windham-Haven in the Mts.
An alpine community offering unspoiled
vistas, a classy, uncrowded ski resort,
art galleries, and Swiss-German and
Italian restaurants. Glimpse the seclud-
ed country estates while you enjoy the
bracing mountain air.
Hunter- All Season Getaway
A center for winter sports with down-
hill skiing, snow tubing, and snow
boarding on the “Big Mountain” plus
cross-country skiing and snowshoeing.
In summer, the ski resort hosts music
and ethnic festivals most weekends.
The once-funky town now boasts an
arts center with an independent
cinema, a cafe and an art gallery.
Catskill is Coming Back
This sleepy village with its hand-
some 19th century buldings is
making a comeback. It has a
creekside marina, fantastic
mountain & river views, an
active art-gallery scene and
the restored home of the artist/
founder of the Hudson River School
of landscape painting, Thomas Cole.
Hudson
Warren Street, the main street of this
formerly dour small city, now glitters
with antiques stores, art and perfor-
mance venues- a far step from its
origins as a whaling village. Visit nearby
Olana, the mountainside Persian-style
mansion of Hudson-River School
painter Frederick Church.
Hop the Amtrak to Hudson and enjoy
the scenic ride north along the river-
perfect weekend away.
Go to either town, you’re likely to visit the other. Both
offer thrills an art lover won’t want to pass up. In Wil-
liamstown the big draw is the Clark Art Institute, followed
by the Williams College art museum. In between, take
lunch in a Thai restaurant just steps from the college mus-
eum. Williamstown has both large-scale civic magnificence
and small-town charm.
Mass MoCA is a delicious contrast. Art with a hugely raucous
attitude has taken over and dominates a gritty Victorian
industrial complex. The effect is exhilarating. The exhibi-
tions are always dramatic and invigorating. A must-see.
Williamstown/North Adams
OK Tanglewood- in July and August the
summer home of the Boston Symphony-
picnicking on the lawn while the orchestra
tunes up under the “Shed.” But Lenox is also
superb shopping. And the hub of robber-baron
splendor in the form of majestic “Cottages”
where today you can savor old world magni-
ficence combined with superb hospitality.
succession of elegant spaces set about by
finely-tended gardens just few steps from
the center of town.
What’s Up in Lenox?
On the Lee-side
Lee’s town center wonderfully retains
the feeling of a small town square--there
is a “there” there. Outside town lie not
the huge magnificent “Cottages” you find
nearer Lenox but sweet authentically
historic inns. Calling itself the “Gateway
to the Berkshires,” Lee lies close to the
principle exit from the Mass Turnpike, and
perhaps for that reason was made home
to a Premium Outlets.
Lee is an excellent unhurried center for
exploring the rest of the Berkshires, close
to both Lenox and Stockbridge and on
the road to Jacobs Pillow.
Stockbridge
The absence of telephone wires and
mailboxes tells you Stockbridge is often
used as a location for Masterpiece-Theater-
type movies requiring a setting
of by-gone Americana elegance. Most famously
unostentatious is the Red Lion Inn-check
out the bar.
Nearby is the Normal Rockwell Museum,
national shrine to a more innocent America
and the artist who invented it. And while
Stockbridge gently insists there’s little else
to compare to it, the town is an
excellent center for sightseeing.
What’s up in Great Barrington?
Great Barringtown is the southermost town
in the mid-Berkshires. it hums with the buzz
of a small city. Main Street and Railroad
Street are lined with excellent shops and
boutiques and usually thronged with shoppers.
You’ll find fine restaurants. A particular
specialty is antiques, see our antiques trail.
Charming Lakeville
This lovely small town just across the
border from NY is perfect for those
seeking a slower pace and a taste of
life far-removed from the hustle &
bustle of NYC.
Historic Hyde Park
Home to 3 outstanding attractions:
The FDR Presidential Library and
Museum (also open to visitors-
Roosevelt’s birthplace and home;
and Val-Kill, Eleanor’s cottage,)
the Vanderbilt Mansion, a time
capsule of the Gilded Age; and
the Culinary Institue of America,
where you can dine on prix-fixe
lunches & suppers prepared by
tomorrow’s master chefs.
West Point- Cradle of Leaders
A bastion of military history, the U.S.
Military Academy at West Point, is open
for tours. Nearby are numerous historic
sites from the War of Independence, inc-
luding George Washington’s Headquarters
in Newburgh. Pretty countryside dotted
with quaint towns.
Old & New in New Paltz
Home to SUNY New Paltz, this lively
village’s charms include bookstores,
reasonably-priced restaurants, gal-
leries and late-night entertainment.
Huguenot Street. a National Historic
District, has buildings from the 1600’s.
Gateway to the Shawangunks and the
Wine Trail.
Direct bus service from Manhattan.
Fall for High Falls
This 200 year-old canal town is
a favorite shopping and night-spot
for NYC-media second-homers who
throng the 4-star Depuy Canal
House. Nearby Stone Ridge boasts
picturesque stone buildings and fine
dining. Rosendale wears its gritty
industrial past like a film set- with
an organic bakery, collectibles shops
and a proudly old-fashioned movie
theater.
Kingston- Then and Now
Originally a Dutch colony, then
the 1st capital of New York State,
uptown Kingston’s pedigreed history
will enchant you. The historic down-
town waterfront offers a maritime
museum, river cruises, marinas,rest-
aurants, galleries and a trolley
museum with rides.
Direct, fast and comfortable bus
service from Port Authority in NYC.
Saugerties
Brick emporia lining this retro
downtown house antiques
bazaars, trendy shops and Man-
hattan-style eateries & bars.
Saugerties is the summer-home
of Horseshows-In-The-Sun and
hosts the Hudson Valley Garlic
Festival every autumn. Late
summer, local artists open their
studios to visitors for a weekend.
The Saugerties Lighthouse is the
perfect place for a picnic between
the tides.
Easy access from Exit 20 on the
NY Thruway.
Woodstock Rocks
Upscale & counterculture meld
in this hamlet, famous as a home
to many 1960’s musicians, re-
warding the visitor with colorful
street-life, superb shopping, gal-
leries & restaurants. Nearby
mountain hikes, a Zen monastery,
and in October, Woodstock hosts
its annual film festival. Get pamp-
ered at one of the spas that dot
the countryside. Direct bus service
from Manhattan
Phun & Phunky Phoenicia
Picturesque mountain town with
a growing number of NYC trans-
plants. Home to Sweet Sue’s,
the best breakfast in the area,
a few other good restaurants,
and the Arts Upstairs, a co-op
art gallery whose monthly
pot-luck opening receptions are
quite the event.
Nearby Belleayre Ski Resort of-
fers reasonable prices, music
performances in the off-season.
Head west for the artisan & ant-
iques shops of Andes.
What’s Up In Jeffersonville?
An All-American town with antiques
& craft shops located near the Wood-
stock Museum, Bethel Woods Center
for the Arts, and the recently re-
built Villa Roma Resort. Polka
dancing on summer nights. Canoe
or fish on the Delaware River.
Roscoe- A River Runs
Through It
This charming small town is
a trout-fishing mecca. Besides
anglers, this town on the edge
of a forest preserve also at-
tracts hunters, golfers and
hikers. Roscoe has numerous
restaurants. The Bethel Woods
Center for the Arts features
big-name performers and is
a half an hour away.
Rhinebeck-Elegance &
History
A gem of a town, with gorgeous
tree-lined streets, gracious Victorian
homes, a bustling shopping district,
superb restaurants, and an indepen
-dent movie house. Nearby Poets’
Walk Park with sweeping views of
the Hudson, and the Frank Ghery-
designed Fisher Performing Arts
Center at Bard College can also be
part of your Rhinebeck getaway.
Amtrak service from NYC at the
Rhinecliff station.
