Upstater - Live Like a Local

Ryan Keegan | November 28, 2023 | Comment
Hunter, NY: Full Circle

Hunter has a knack for reinvention. This 90-square-mile town has been a tourist destination as far back as late 19th and early 20th centuries. As the Catskill Archive recounts, by the time passenger line the Ulster and Delaware Railroad arrived on the mountain in 1882, “from the village of Hunter to Tannersville to Haines Falls, […]
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Ryan Keegan | October 17, 2023 | Comment
Ellenville’s Next Chapter

Situated at the base of the Shawangunk Ridge, Ellenville has seen its share of ups and downs. Once a thriving hub of commerce and industry, this small village basked in the limelight during the days of the Borscht Belt era, offering respite and revelry to those seeking a getaway just 90 miles from New York […]
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Joan Vos MacDonald | September 28, 2023 | Comment
The Reinvisioned Livingston Manor Fly Fishing Club

When Sally Watkinson and Doug Posey began their budding hospitality empire, neither had experience in the business—other than Posey’s odd restaurant jobs during college. Watkinson, who worked in corporate design, and Posey, a corporate lawyer, purchased Audrey’s Bed & Breakfast, a c.1740 cedar-shake farmhouse in Gardiner, as a side business and retreat from their New […]
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Nola Storms | July 26, 2023 | Comment
A Quiet, Compact Catskill Getaway

Everything you need and nothing you don’t. That is Getaway’s goal with their compact cabins in the Catskills, built with natural components—wood, metal, and glass—favoring magnificent views of the woodland setting through big picture windows. Co-owners Jon Staff and Pete Davis have been providing getaways to visitors since 2015, with 30 destinations all over the […]
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