Local and organic Mexican food with great cocktails (stumbling distance to Hotel Dylan).
A bit far away, but one of our favorite upstate B&B's with beautiful grounds and an incredible restaurant.
A large and traditional "luxury" mountain resort with a spa, golf course, and other activities on-site.
In Rhinebeck, the better looking sister restaurant to Cucina (Woodstock) with excellent food.
If you're ok spending a few hundred dollars per person (seriously) you'll have an incredible meal. But, yeah, it's expensive for upstate.
Excellent modernist art gallery (have lunch at The Roundhouse while you're in Beacon).
Cool swimming hole. Split Rock Hole is a collection of unique wading opportunities. A brisk stream between two sizable cliffs where jumping off is a popular option.
A relatively brief walk in a portion of the Minnewaska Park, near Wawarsing is a 90' waterfall flowing over a sheer cliff face into a pristine swimming hole. Above the fall is a pool with great views.
Jenkins & Luekin Orchards offers vegetables, peaches, plums, raspberries, blackberries, pumpkins, summer and winter squash, fall garden mums, and grapes in pure scenery.
Great views across the basin to the Catskills, and the bridges and old stonework have the effect of bringing you back in time. Very easy wide, paved trails for any athletic level (no pups).
One of the most respected Zen Buddhist monasteries in the West, where monks are teaching and practicing ancient monasticism. Open to daily visits. Listed on the Nat'l Register of Historic Places.
