Planning a road trip this April? Make sure to take advantage of National Park Week, with free admission and festivities at every National Park in the country, from April 16-24. See below for more details on the event, complete with photos from our own trip to Big Bend National Park last year. ...
By size, Vermont is the sixth smallest state in the U.S.; it’s also the second least populated. Technically speaking, for city dwellers, there are very few places in North America that are more of an “escape” than a visit to Vermont. But for us, the draw wasn’t only to escape ...
Middlebury is a small town in western Vermont where the craft food and drink scene is just as enticing as the scenery. In either direction, you're surrounded by massive mountain ranges–with the mighty Adirondacks to the west, and the lush Green Mountains to the east. And while this tiny town that's tucked between ...
Over the past couple months, I noticed more and more of my photographer friends were visiting Iceland. Even more of the Instagrammers I follow were visiting, too. No doubt this is because the scenery here is stunning–with tall, snowy mountains, winding dirt roads, tall pine trees and striking black beaches. Iceland is a no-fail, ...
Here at Escape Brooklyn, we get a lot of emails asking for personal recommendations–whether it be hotels, questions about relocating, and very often, what our "insider" scoop is on the coolest rental properties out there. Though I promise you, we don't have any secret spots (okay, maybe one or two or five really special places), ...
A couple years ago, when great Airbnbs were much harder to come by–and by the way, they still can be–Denny and I discovered Red Cottage Inc., a boutique rental agency that specializes in the Hudson Valley and Catskills. We were really excited, and understandably so if you've ever spent hours and hours surfing through ...
Thaddeus House–aka “Spacious Catskills A-frame" on Airbnb–is a retro-chic dream come true: a double A-frame home, built by hand in the 1970’s, just outside the groovy mountain town of Woodstock, New York. We love this house because it's one of those special places that perfectly marries the exterior to the interior, with period correct everything–from ...
American author Henry David Thoreau moved to the woods in 1848 for two years, two months, and two days to answer the call of what he referred to as “living deliberately.” He explained his quest for self-reliance, seclusion and simplicity in his most famous piece of literature, Walden, where he moves into a tiny cabin in the woods ...
Guest house, farm house, party barn, recording studio, zen garden, pond, wood-fired sauna, and a hot tub on 20 acres. No, this isn’t David Bowie's hidden place you heard about in the Catskills–it’s Silent G Farms, just two hours from New York City in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains. On the bucolic, sprawling 20-acre property ...
Ojai is a small, sleepy town nestled at the foot of the Topatopa Mountains in Ventura County, California. Just two hours and 80 miles northwest of L.A., it's quickly becoming a destination–not only for Los Angolans, but also drawing in creative types from places like Brooklyn, Denver, and Austin. So what's the draw? First, ...