This isn’t just a list, it’s your official permission slip to cancel your plans, rally your crew, and live your best spring life. From cherry blossom dreams to antique car heaven, cannabis cups to craft markets, epic concerts, castles, flower fields, fire arts, and fantasy realms — May in New York is stacked with jaw-dropping, memory-making, "I can’t believe we almost missed that!" kind of events.

A chill is not the only thing in the air here in the Hudson Valley, this is the season for love! The colder it gets outside, the more we...