What To Do
Besides the party, there’s lots to do in Dutchess County. Here are a few of our favorites.
Restaurants
Le petit bistro
Rhinebeck, 16 minutes away
Enjoy craft cocktails, great bottle list, cask wine and draft beer. Raw oysters in the chic, lively atmosphere at our serpentine lilac marble bar. Since 1986, Le Petit Bistro, an institution in Rhinebeck, has been a celebration of the French countryside tradition of local foraging, farming and butchering.
habitas-on-hudson
Rhinebeck, 18 minutes away
Giving the soon-to-open Soho Farmhouse a run for its money. Located just outside the charming village of Rhinebeck just two hours from New York City, Habitas-on-Hudson is a countryside retreat and playground for the curious with activities around adventure, learning and culinary experiences. Ideal for disconnecting from city life, our unique experience in the Hudson Valley offers a place to bathe in the synchronicities of nature and connect with like-minded individuals.
the Beekman tavern
Rhinebeck, 16 minutes away
A pub in America's oldest continuously operated hotel located in the historic Hudson Valley NY. Since before the Revolutionary War, the Beekman Arms and Delamater Inn has welcomed guests to the beauty of the Hudson Valley. The property has operated continuously since 1766, retaining much of its colonial charm and character, while offering modern conveniences to guests seeking a historic vacation.
Market St
Rhinebeck, 16 minutes away
Market St.’s wood burning brick oven, from which Chef Scappin’s signature Neopolitan-style pizzas are made, glows behind a long white marble counter. The elegant and rustic style dining rooms are dotted with antique finds and filament light fixtures. Driftwood pickled floors and cozy booths with Belgium linen banquettes create a convivial atmosphere.
An instant hit with locals and tourists, Market ST is always bustling with a breezy vibe. Sip specialty cocktails at the bar or dine on the patio and watch historic Rhinebeck go by.
Cinnamon indian cuisine
Rhinebeck, 16 minutes away
Cinnamon is located in the center of the Village of Rhinebeck and features a comfortable dining room with a large communal table, plenty of intimate seating, and the spice room—a second floor cocktail den serving small plates.
Bringing the flavors of India’s many regions to the Hudson Valley so our customers can explore the traditional dishes of our childhoods. We also offer inventive cocktails and modern plates that combine the authentic flavors, aromas and spices of India with contemporary American ingredients. Our menu relies on high-quality meats, dairy and produce, mostly sourced from local farms.
bia
Rhinebeck, 17 minutes away
The Rhinebeck restaurant brings Gaelic tradition, upscale comfort fare, and local ingredients to its quiet corner of Garden Street.
Open since spring 2019, Bia (pronounced bee-ya) brings a sliver of the Emerald Isle to the heart of Dutchess County. Named after the Gaelic term for alimentation, food, and sustenance, the restaurant is a passion project from proprietor and general manager Kyle Kelley.
barbaro
Millbrook, 16 minutes away
A modern jewel-box by the same owners as Market St, sitting on the corner of Franklin Ave. and Church St., the space exudes warmth and intimacy upon first entering the open dining room. Grand mirrors with antique gold frames, sportsman’s artifacts such as polo mallets and riding helmets, and sun-kissed terra cotta pottery pay homage to the area’s equestrian heritage while simultaneously referencing old-world aesthetics.
The Millbrook Inn
Outer Millbrook, 25 minutes away
In a building over 100 years old, set on a country road dotted with lush farmland and grazing horses,
you will find The Millbrook Inn: a serene retreat located in the heart of the Hudson Valley. Filled with authentic furnishings, high-end fabrics, and a mix of found objects and eclectic art, each of the rooms tells a unique story. They bring to mind an iconic American Colonial home, but are freshly reimagined with a modern twist. Each well-appointed accommodation features luxurious ensuite bathrooms and high-end modern amenities including complimentary WiFi. Every stay includes locally-sourced breakfast each morning.
Troutbeck
Amenia, 26 minutes away
A really well-designed estate hotel with pool, restaurant, tennis courts, etc. Troutbeck has served as an enchanting private estate, country inn and tavern since the 1700's and has for centuries, been a favored retreat of distinguished guests important in the arts, letters, matters of policy and social justice. During the time of the estate’s first owners, the Benton Family, it played frequent host to Thoreau, Emerson and the naturalist, John Burroughs.
Vineyards
Milea Estate Vineyard
Staatsburg, 14 minutes
A 98 acre vineyard estate producing some of the Hudson Valley's best wine and boasting an elegant tasting room with stunning views. Milea offers wines and ciders for all tastes and palates; ranging from crisp, dry and zingy sparkling wine to old world inspired Cabernet Francs. The estate also hosts many events throughout the year, including live music. The estate can even be reserved for your wedding, bridal shower, retirement party or corporate event.
Millbrook Vineyards & Winery
Millbrook, 12 minutes away
This 130-acres estate features the 30-acre vineyard, trails and lakes. Wine tastings are offered daily, and the Vineyard Grill is open on weekends. Special events are offered year-round, and their annual summer Jazz concert series takes place on Saturday evenings in the summer. Millbrook Vineyards & Winery is part of the Dutchess County Wine Trail. The Loft, their rustic and elegant 1940’s style barn with soaring ceilings, is a charming location for weddings or private / corporate events.
Clermont Vineyards & Winery
Germantown, 22 minutes away
Featuring panoramic views of the Catskill Mountains, Clermont Vineyards & Winery, located in Clermont, New York, crafts fine wines for any occasion. We are a small family business, growing a variety of grapes on approximately 4,000 vines across seven acres of land.
More than a decade ago, we transformed a former dairy farm near Clermont State Park into a state-of-the-art vineyard. In 2014, we began selling our wines to the public. Our wines, except for three that we import from our cousin’s winery in Portugal, are made from grapes that we grow on premises.
Distilleries
Taconic Distillery Stanfordville
Our town’s distillery of bourbon, rum and gin. Tastings + Tours. 2 miles 5’
Hillrock Distillery Ancram Producers of hand crafted spirits with own grains. Tastings + Tours. 8 miles 15’
Dutch’s Spirits Pine Plains
"Built on the underground bootlegging site of notorious gangster Dutch Schultz.Cocktails + Food Trucks." 10 miles 15’
Hudson Distillers Germantown
Relaxed hand-distilled whiskey, vodka, gin, and Cider. Cocktails + Food Trucks. 17 miles 23’
Crown Maple Dover Plains
Madava Farm’s 800 acre organic family estate.Tastings + Lunch + Tours. 19 miles 30’
TenMile Distillery Wassaic
A return to traditional methods of whisky-making and produce a superior spirit – plucked from a time before global production schedules and the mass market. 21 miles 30’
Cooper’s Daughter Spirits Hudson
Woman-owned distillery (and B&B) for locally sourced bourbon, whiskey, vodka and liqueurs. Cocktail garden + food trucks.. 26 miles 30’
Hudson House West Park
Former 100+ yr old waterfront monastery, beginning its new life as a Craft Distillery with Tasting Rooms and Bar. 28 miles 38’
DINERS
Millbrook Diner Millbrook
The close one. 10 miles 15’
The Redhook Diner Redhook
The casual one. 13 miles 18’
West Taghkanic Ancram
The cool-looking one. 17 miles 18’
Oakhurst Diner Millerton
The fashion people one. 20 miles 25’
FARMS + MARKETS
Big Rock Market Stanfordville
Every Day : Products sourced meticulously and conscientiously, thinking about our community first. 4 miles 6’
Farmer’s Market Rhinebeck
Sundays 10A-2P May-Dec : Promotes Hudson Valley agricultural products, local farmers, and enlivens the Village of Rhinebeck. 10 miles 15’
Sky Acres Angus Pine Plains
T,Th,F,S 12-2P or call ahead Ray Wendover’s Farm with Angus Beef, Gloucestershire pigs and the grandson’s sheep 12 miles 15’
Farmer’s Market MIllbrook
Saturdays 9A-1P Jun-Nov : Baked Goods, Cheese & Charcuterie, Flowers, Fresh Eggs, Fruits, Jams & Jellies, Meats & Poultry, Plants, Prepared Foods, Seafood 10 miles 16’
Migliorelli Farm Stand Rhinebeck+Red HookEvery Day 9A-6P :
Family-run farm since selling around the Bronx by horse and cart in 1933. Veggies, fruits, eggs, meats and pies. 12 miles 16’
Black Sheep Hill Pine Plains
24/7 : You can find our meats in the freezers, the eggs in the refrigerator. Just pick what you want, weigh it and leave the money. (Sheep, pigs, hens) 10 miles 18’
Greig Farm’s Market Red Hook
Every Day 9A-7P : With goats, art space and farm trails!! Enjoy century old dairy barn with veggies, fruits, eggs, cheeses, meats, fish, flowers from local farms. 14 miles 19’
Chaseholm Farm Pine Plains
24/7 : 3rd generation dairy farm with shop that also features other local meats and veggies. 13 miles 19’
Farmer’s Market Millerton
Saturdays 2nd and 4th, 10A-2P :
seasonal produce, pasture-raised meats, fruit, cheeses, baked goods and prepared foods. 17 miles 28’
Farmer’s Market Kingston
Saturdays. Winter: Every other Sat inside Senate Garage. Can Pre-Order online from most vendors. 22 miles 29’
DRIVE-IN + MOVIE THEATERS
Upstate Films Rhinebeck
A not-for-profit movie theater for Independent, Foreigh and Art-House Cinema. 10 miles 15’
Lyceum Cinemas Red Hook
Keeping movie-going affordable since 1991. See the best for less and enjoy REAL butter on your popcorn. 3 miles 17’
Four Brothers’ Drive-In Amenia
Modern-retro drive-in theater with double features, ice cream & a restaurant with car delivery. 15 miles 23’
The Moviehouse Millerton
Independent cinema screening Hollywood movies alongside art films & documentaries. 20 miles 28’
CULTURAL SPACES + MUSIC
The Trevor Zoo Millbrook
Local Zoo at a private school with more than 180 exotic and indigenous animals, including endangered species10 miles 18’
The Wassaic Project Wassaic
Not-for-profit artist residency, exhibition space… and drive-in bingo. 17 miles 27’
Hudson River Maritime Museum Kingston
Historic vessels and objects such as paintings, photographs, ship models, a 100-year old shad boat, lighthouse tender and ice yachts in a historic waterfront space. 20 miles 28’
Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum Poughkeepsie
Empowering young children and families. Celebrating diversity and inclusion. Getting you moving, building, exploring, and creating! 21 miles 32’
Dia : Beacon Beacon
Museum of contemporary art with more exhibition space than Manhattan's Guggenheim, Whitney Museum, and MoMA combined. 40 miles 44’
Storm King Windsor
One of the World’s leading sculpture parks. 46 miles 57’
ESTATES + GARDENS
Innisfree Garden Millbrook
Recognized as one of the “world’s ten best gardens,” an icon of mid-twentieth century design. merging Modernist and Romantic ideas with Chinese and Japanese principles. 12 miles 16’
Wethersfield Amenia/Stanford
Stillman country estate and The 1,200 acre grounds with incredible views, an Italianate Villa, formal gardens, farm, cross-country skiing, horseback riding and carriage driving. 11 miles 20’
Wilderstein Rhinebeck
Suckley Estate with exquisite Queen Anne mansion with river views regarded as one of the Hudson Valley’s most important examples of Victorian architecture. 13 miles 20’
Blithewood Gardens Red Hook (Bard Campus)
Formal Italianate walled garden on an intimate scale within a grand setting: the awe-inspiring backdrop of the Catskill Mountains and the Hudson River. 15 miles 22’
Mills Mansion Staatsburg
The 1932 Mills Mansion is emblematic of America’s wealthiest families’ great country estates. Gardens+River views. 14 miles 23’
Montgomery Place Red Hook
In the Livingston Family until 1986, elegant 380-acre estate with mansion, farm, gardens, orchards, rolling lawns and woodlands, and gardens, with spectacular backdrop of the Catskill Mountains. 14 miles 23’
Vanderbilt Mansion Hyde Park
Frederick Vanderbilt's, 54-room mansion and gardens in a wondrous landscape of rolling hills with breathtaking Hudson River views and the distant Catskill Mountains. 17 miles 24’
Montgomery Place Annandale-on- the-Hudson (Bard Campus)
Dramatically situated along the Hudson River, it was widely known for its richly ornamented Federal house and extensive pleasure grounds of heiress Janet Livingston. 15 miles 24’
Franklin D Roosevelt Estate Hyde Park
Estate of the former president, featuring a historic, federal-style home, library, museum, greenhouse, stables and over a thousand acres of gardens and trails with river views. 18 miles 25’
Clermont Red Hook
Home to 7 generations of the Livingston Family, including an author of the Declaration of Independence. 1750 Mansion, Garden + Grounds overlooking Hudson River. 21 miles 28’
Locust Grove Poughkeepsie
Inventor Samuel F. B. Morse’s Italianate VIlla from 1850 on a dramatic bluff overlooking the Hudson River with an heirloom garden collection and large Locust Grove. 23 miles 32’
Olana Hudson
Eccentric Orientalist Victorian House of landscape painter Frederic Church. With incredible naturalistic grounds, trails and Hudson River views. 28 miles 33’
Stonecrop Gardens Cold Spring
Conservatory, Alpine House, and a collection of gardens that include woodland, raised alpine stone beds, cliff rock gardens, and an enclosed English-style flower garden. 38 miles 45’
Boscobel House Garrison
Renovated Neoclassical mansion with 68 acres of grounds overlooking the Hudson River, with formal gardens, beautiful vegetable gardens, and a woodland trail. 42 miles 58’
Berkshire Botanical Gardens Stockbridge, MA
Botanical gardens with 15 acres of flower beds, ponds & gardens for strolling & picnicking, plus exhibits & events. 48 miles 58’
SPORT : EQUESTRIAN
Thomases Equestrian Clinton Corners *Favorite*
A rambling 18th-Century Farmhouse and Equestrian Center in the heart of horse country. 4 miles 9’
Hidden Hollow Farms Red Hook
A not-for-profit with a mission to provide a pleasurable equestrian experience for people with and without disabilities. 6 miles 9’
Rivendell Riding Academy Clinton Corners
Ponies! 5 miles 9’
Tamarack Polo Club Pine Plains *Favorite*
Polo matches/championships every weekend during the Summer 10 miles 16’
SPORT : FISH + GAME
Tamarack Amenia
Private Member’s Hunting and Fishing Club with private lessons as well. 12 miles 18’
Orvis Sandanona Millbrook
Private Member’s Hunting and Fishing Club , with a lodge that dates back to Thomas Jefferson. 10 miles 18’
SPORT : WATER
Black Swan Sailing Rhinecliff
Sightseeing in a 36’ Catalina Tall Rig Fin Keel Monohull Sailboat. 12 miles 19’
Poughkeepsie Yacht Club Hyde Park
kayaking, sunbathing, sailing, fishing. 16 miles 22’
Hudson Sailing Kingston
Sunset, Three and Four Hour Charter, Barbeque and Swim. 20 miles 26’
Kingston Sailing Club Kingston
Sailing Classes. 18 miles 23’
Rondout Rowing Club
Kingston Rowing Classes. 18 miles 23’