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Fred Wolf of Nature Based showed up at our place with a machete, some landscape fabric, and a dream.
Meet Trotwood, your new favorite restaurant, serving classic Catskills comfort food (and NYC-quality cocktails) at Round Top’s Glen Falls House.
The Cask and Rasher in Coxsackie has the home-away-from-home quality of a solid neighborhood sports bar, plus a really impressive beer selection and an pub food menu that beats our all favorite Brooklyn brew pubs, hands down.
Brooklyn's 61 Local opened a second location, Windham Local, near Windham Ski Mountain in the Catskills.
CATSKILLS BARGAIN ALERT: Pick the freshest flowers on a the most beautiful farm and take home a gorgeous bouquet for only $8!
The Yellow Deli in Oak Hill is the most unique cafe in the Catskills. The giant, dimly-lit, wood-paneled space, complete with an enormous avian mural and tinkling new age music, feels like a secret tree-house.
It's easy to fall in love with The DeWitt Oak Hill, a warm and welcoming inn on the Catskill Creek that serves gourmet breakfasts and is filled with antique treasures to take home.
You want to experience the fun parts of farm life (Adirondack chairs around a campfire), not the gross parts (shoveling livestock poo). You want to leave NYC after lunch and be stepping into a leafy wilderness before dinner. Time to book at room at Honey Hollow Farm Stay.
East Durham Farms is one of the main reasons I started writing about the Catskills. Whether you're a local or a weekender, it's totally worth seeking out this little farm stand at 175 Brown Road in East Durham. In the past year, I've written about their glorious sun-sweetened peas, their kid-friendly farm animals, their impossibly delicious tomatoes, and their pumpkins and Thanksgiving turkeys. I love this place.
Greenville Drive-In: A drive-in movie theater, a picture-perfect wedding venue, a destination-worthy hidden gem in the Catskills. Photo by Beth Schneck Photography.
The Catskills are calling. It's time to start planning your summer vacation, and we've got some fun happenings to get you started.
Rosendale: An easy weekend trip, under 2 hours from NYC, promising coconut cake, magic potions, thrift shops, and more.
Crisp blue skies, tree shadows spilling over snow, and the serenity of nature. The most peaceful time of the year to visit the Catskill Mountains.
If you're searching for an affordable dream home in the Catskills, this is a story of hope. The short version of this story is that our friend found a bank-owned, 6-acre property listed at $10K, and he bought it in a blind auction for just under $50K. The long version starts in the hills of the Czech Republic, long before he was born.
Scott Chasse can't promise that his hex signs will bring you good fortune, but when the world feels turbulent and dark, there's something calming and bright in the colorful geometry of his work.
Upstate Stock is many things: a sun-drenched coffee-shop, an urban-rustic menswear purveyor, an importer of design-conscious products from the Catskills. If you're shopping for the man in your life who can build a campfire and also choose the perfect modern bungalow on Airbnb, look no further.
Sidney's Best Sea Salt Caramels: The most insanely delicious salted caramels you've never tasted