No cell service and winding country roads make Bovina and the surrounding Delaware County feel suspended in time. Photo: Escape Brooklyn. With no stoplights, no cell service, and more cows than people, Bovina is as pastoral as it gets. Rolling farmland, winding dirt roads, and ...
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 ...
The Deer Mountain Inn is the perfect weekend retreat from NYC. Typically we post dining, drinking, and outdoor activities recommendations in every location we visit—fortunately, the Deer Mountain Inn has all of that on-site. (It's all fantastic, too, which makes our jobs way easier.) The six-room inn is about a 2.5 hour drive from ...
Escape Brooklyn Summer Camp 2015: we came, we camped, we fished, we tubed, and man did we get rained on. But we didn't let that get us own–we had an incredible time with the fourteen brave souls who did make it out. A picture is worth a thousand words, so we thought ...
The Arnold House is a nine-room hotel just outside Livingston Manor in the western Catskill Mountains, just two hours from New York City. For such a small town, we found ourselves much busier than usual. Though it was hard to pry ourselves away from our cozy room, we still managed to squeeze in a farm ...
Bear Hill Farm is a beautiful and charming getaway rental property in the rolling hills of the western Catskill Mountains. The 1850’s farmhouse is just 15 minutes outside of the town of Delhi in Delaware County. The scenery in “DelCo” (short for Delaware County) is comprised of large, rolling hills and flat valleys ...