Trying to fix a two week stay there in mid August with family, (me, wife, tow teenage daughters.) The girls like kayaking, so perhaps renting kayaks for one day and getting on the upper Delaware is one idea.
Nature in the are re trails, waterfalls?
Restaurant recommendations (nothing too fancy please, Diners, pizza etc) If possible (doubting it) ethnic food re Asian or Italian?
Is there a drive in movie in the area? They've disappeared over the decades since I was a kid...
Any local pub/club with music?
All and any ideas appreciated, TIA.
Trip Advisor suggested Forestburgh Playhouse, for summer stock theater. Will have to investigate.
The Hancock House Hotel has a nice bar and restaurant downstairs. On Main st is Little Italy II, good Italian food. There are a few 9 & 18 hole golf courses in town. Also good restaurants in Deposit and Rosco which are both 30 min out of town.
Good Luck !!
There’s a drive-in theater in Hyde Park that I think is still open but it’s an hour away maybe more. You can see FDR’s mansion while there (and one of the Vanderbilt’s.)
Good Idea! Has New York de-criminalized it yet? I promised my daughters, now 16 and 17, that one night we would smoke weed, bake and eat home made choc chip cookies, and watch The Harder They Come (Jimmy Cliff) and The Rocky Horror Picture Show... Maybe Monticello is the place for that.
I like the idea of a local brewery or 3... The wife will drive too, and not have more than 3 tasting size shots, or just sips from whatever I order.
And you can get a quick 9 in.
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Good Idea! Has New York de-criminalized it yet? I promised my daughters, now 16 and 17, that one night we would smoke weed, bake and eat home made choc chip cookies, and watch The Harder They Come (Jimmy Cliff) and The Rocky Horror Picture Show... Maybe Monticello is the place for that.
I like the idea of a local brewery or 3... The wife will drive too, and not have more than 3 tasting size shots, or just sips from whatever I order.
"Many rivers to cross
And it's only my will that keeps me alive
I've been licked, washed up for years
And I merely survive because of my pride"
That particular song has more meaning for me now than ever before.
Thanks for all the tips!
To me, seeing that hill for the first time was like visiting Mecca. But I'm old.
Big G golf course there is still a hidden gem though.
And you can get a quick 9 in.
We went to a Van Halen concert at Bethel Woods - STUNNING facility, BTW - highly recommend it for concerts - we stayed in Liberty.
Never stay in Liberty.
What a sad, sad, depressed absolute DUMP of a town. Everything is in ruins or on the way. Grossingers stands in ruins like the Roman Coliseum.
The next time we went to a show there, we camped at the Campground by Swan Lake - nice place and they have a shuttle bus to the concerts.
Big G golf course there is still a hidden gem though.
To me, seeing that hill for the first time was like visiting Mecca. But I'm old.
great point re the anniversary! TX
Not on my watch, even if I am not a damned doctor... Got two of them too!
I live in Hancock, and hear nothing but good things about UncleBrothers.
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places for a dance instructor from the streets to meet and seduce the teenage daughter of a doctor.
Not on my watch, even if I am not a damned doctor... Got two of them too!
You can't put your Baby(s) in the corner.
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places for a dance instructor from the streets to meet and seduce the teenage daughter of a doctor.
Not on my watch, even if I am not a damned doctor... Got two of them too!
You can't put your Baby(s) in the corner.
Oh I know and am living it now, but they are great gals, and do respect their dad's advice perhaps more than I deserve. Probably more than I deserve.
Thanks to all for tips, and find myself lucking out in many ways.
Thanks for the tickets, Chris!
Prolly gonna get tickets for John Fogerty 8/18 at the Bethel Performing Center Pavilion, very reasonable deal for 4 tickets of general admin on the lawn...
Forestburgh Playhouse performing "The Producers" 8/13 onwards every night, a classic B'way musical from my own teen years that I saw with my parents, perhaps Mel Brooks's finest work (awesome movie version with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder), kayaking looks great on the upper Delaware and my daughters are psyched about that, hiking, some longer journeys out down to 6 Flags in Jackson and one overnight at the Jersey shore... Gonna be good, and lots to do with some driving around.