A flower vanishes in the kiln. Forty-nine strands of steel become jewelry. Vintage denim gets a second life. Meet 10 makers coming to Fall Crafts at Lyndhurst.

The Hudson Valley Wine & Food Festival is not a quick lap around a few tasting tables. It is a full weekend in Rhinebeck built for people who want to discover what is actually in the glass, meet the people behind it, and leave with a new bottle obsession.

Fifty-two September 2026 events North of NYC throughout the Hudson Valley and beyond—from balloons and jazz to wine, art, garlic and giant pumpkins.

One woman will win a customized $10,000 HEBE Goddess Makeover. Larie Pidgeon writes honestly about lasers, natural-looking results and the pressure women feel to look effortless.

Three-day passes start at $425, and a limited number of single-day GA passes are now available. Here’s what tickets, shuttles, seating and the real weekend cost look like in Kingston.

Kingston’s second annual Sexiest Armpit contest judged eight contestants on looks, scent and interpretive dance, and it is already returning in 2027.

August is summer refusing to slow down. County fairs are filling midway lights, porches are turning into stages, corgis are racing at Saratoga, lumberjacks are climbing greased poles and a festival devoted to Lake Champlain’s legendary monster is taking over the waterfront. This month’s guide reaches from Westchester and the Hudson Valley through the Catskills, Capital Region, Adirondacks and Finger Lakes. You will find major concerts, outdoor theater, food festivals, cultur

This Friday, July 31, from 7 to 9:30 p.m., the Walkway becomes something more than a bridge for a few hours. It's the second annual Lights Across the Hudson, put on by the Hudson Valley Hospice Foundation, and it's exactly what it sounds like: thousands of glowing luminaries lining the path between Poughkeepsie and Highland, each one dedicated to someone who died, each one carried onto the bridge by someone who still remembers them.

One lucky winner will receive the ultimate Westchester getaway, valued at more than $1,700, including a two-night stay at Sonesta White Plains Downtown, four tickets to Caramoor with a private Rosen House tour, four tickets to the Pleasantville Music Festival to see Ok Go, Old 97's, The Fixx, Yola, and more live, dinner for two at Freebird Kitchen & Bar, and dinner for two at Hudson Grille.

America turns 250 this year, and Port Jervis is throwing one hell of a birthday party. Fireworks. Live music. George Washington and Ben Franklin walking the grounds. A giant car show. Chainsaw carving by a world champion. Carnival rides. Lobster rolls. Slow-smoked barbecue. A birthday cake cut with a saber.

We've been covering this region long enough to know what a perfect Hudson Valley weekend actually looks like. This one was built for two.

The Rhinebeck Crafts Festival returns to the Dutchess County Fairgrounds on June 6–7, and if you’ve never been, we’re genuinely a little envious of you. There’s something about experiencing it for the first time, turning a corner and suddenly realizing the scale of it, the quality of it, the sheer amount of strange, beautiful, one-of-a-kind stuff spread out in every direction, that’s hard to recreate once you know what’s coming. But honestly? It gets better every year.

May 1 through 3, one of the best craft fairs in the Northeast takes over the grounds of Lyndhurst Mansion, and we built an entire weekend around it, a historic estate hotel, a waterfront dinner on the Hudson, a bottle of small-batch bourbon made here in the Hudson Valley, and a night out in Dobbs Ferry that does not know when to quit. We are giving the whole thing away to one winner. But whether you enter or not, this is the weekend blueprint worth bookmarking.

New York does this better than almost anywhere. Real farms, real soil, real seasons, and a network of growers and makers who take it seriously. You see it in the produce, picked at the right time and not a day early. You taste it in the bread, built from flour that actually means something. You feel it in the meat, raised with intention, processed with care, and brought to market by the same people who stand behind it.

Spring Crafts at Lyndhurst in Tarrytown NY, brings together makers with real command of their craft. This article takes a closer look at the artists behind it, the people shaping the materials, making the decisions, and building work that holds up long after the first impression. It’s not a full list, just a selection worth spending time with, each one bringing a distinct point of view and a level of craft you can feel right away.

The first thing you notice is the sound. Hundreds of tattoo machines buzzing at once, a metallic swarm of electricity and intention. It’s not noise exactly, it’s rhythm. Walk through the doors of the International Hudson Valley Tattoo Convention and you step into a world where art doesn’t hang on walls, it lives under skin. Artists hunched over collectors, stencil paper taped to tables, flash sheets covering every square inch of booth walls.

HVH’s 12 Stays of Christmas is back, and this is the one everyone waits for all year. Twelve wildly different dream stays, one massive giveaway, and a lineup built to make you start planning trips before you even finish reading. From waterfall views and design forward hideaways to mountain lodges, historic boutique gems, and full reset retreats, this list is pure upstate escapism, wrapped in holiday chaos, and ready to be claimed.

Two stamps down, appetite wide open. At Harvest on Hudson and Half Moon, dinner isn’t merely plated — it’s charted, stamped, and story-driven. Your Passport becomes the thread that ties each journey together: every evening earns a mark, every dish becomes a memory, and every return visit unlocks a new layer of the adventure.

tles in, and Upstate New York is packing it with everything worth leaving the house for. Think Broadway-level theatre in Schenectady, bluegrass legends in Albany, soup fundraisers that feed entire communities, wine trails trimmed in garland, and cozy lodge markets where cider steams in one hand and a handmade gift sits in the other. From pumpkin-launching festivals in the Adirondacks to Portuguese wine dinners on the Hudson, this month doesn’t ease in — it arrives with music,

October doesn’t tiptoe into New York — it barrels in with a calendar so stacked, you’ll wonder how to fit it all in. This is the month when haunted houses stretch longer, festivals blaze brighter, concerts hit harder, and every corner of the Hudson Valley and beyond feels electric with fall energy. It’s not just the peak of spooky season — it’s the peak of everything.