Who it’s for

A second home you get to when you can. We keep your profile, so every opening matches the last.

Send us the address and your check-in. Your groceries, your temperature, your way, all done before you arrive.

Borrowing a friend’s place? We open it before you get there and close it after you go, so all you owe them is a thank-you note.

Before you go

The Hudson Valley, from the ground.

Fill up before the Taconic. Gas is scarce along the parkway. The Taste NY market at Todd Hill has heated restrooms and local snacks, but no pumps.
Watch the shaded stretch. Through Putnam, trees and rock cuts keep the sun off the road, and it holds ice after everything else is dry.
Deer at dusk. They’re out on every back road from late afternoon on. Slow down after the exit.
Not driving? Amtrak gets you from Penn to Hudson in about two hours, and Rhinecliff is the stop for Rhinebeck and Kingston. Tell us your train and we’ll time the house to it.

Book Saturday dinner before you leave the city. Small kitchens fill fast on winter weekends, and plenty keep shorter hours or close early in the week.
Cold houses warm slowly. A house held at 55° all week takes hours to feel right, and old radiators take longest. That’s why we start the heat well before you’re on the road.
Heat low, never off. Frozen pipes are the most expensive souvenir a weekend can leave.
Ask about the generator. Winter storms take the power out upstate more often than people expect, and a house on a well loses water with it. Know where the flashlights live.
Ask who clears what. A plow contract usually covers the driveway, not always the walk and the steps.

Riverside Tavern. Extraordinary, and tiny. A reservation isn’t optional.
Buy firewood there, not in the city. New York doesn’t allow untreated firewood to travel more than 50 miles from where it was cut. A bundle labeled “New York-Approved Heat Treated” is the exception.
Hawthorne Valley Farm Store, Ghent. A full organic grocery on a working farm, open every day from early morning into the evening.
Kingston’s farmers market goes indoors for winter, to the Old Dutch Church on alternating Saturdays.
Bread Alone. Hudson Valley born, with cafés in Rhinebeck, Boiceville and Woodstock, and fresh loaves on plenty of supermarket shelves.
Barb’s Butchery, Beacon. The real deal: local meats, eggs, broths, even bones for the dog.
Or your favorites from the city, brought up fresh and waiting when you arrive.

Weekends upstate, already underway.