Self-guided day trips through the Valley's best farm country — one good Saturday at a time.
Every Farm Trail is a real, drivable loop: a morning farm stand, a sugarhouse or a cidery, a maker or two, somewhere good for lunch, and the back roads that string them together. No ads, nothing to sign up for — just a day worth taking.
A best-preserved 19th-century hamlet, an eighth-generation Bicentennial farm, honor-system stands down every back road, and a sugarhouse that has been boiling sap since 1898.
Read the guide →The high Catskills resort towns — Windham, Hunter, Prattsville, Gilboa — with farms, cideries, and big-view detours.
Read the guide →Coxsackie, New Baltimore, and Athens — Greene County's Hudson River villages, with an inland orchard arm through Climax and Earlton.
Read the guide →Thacher Park's escarpment, Altamont, the Indian Ladder orchards, and Albany's Warehouse District to finish.
Read the guide →Berne, Rensselaerville, and Westerlo — the quiet Albany hilltowns, rare-breed farms, and the Huyck Preserve.
Read the guide →Hudson's makers, the orchards and dairies of the hills, and some of the most farm-dense back roads in the region.
Read the guide →Deep-country dairy, riverside hamlets, and the East Branch — Delaware County at its most rural.
Read the guide →New Paltz, Gardiner, and Accord beneath the Gunks — orchards, farm breweries, and the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail.
Read the guide →Kingston's makers and markets, the Ashokan Reservoir, and the farms tucked into the Catskill foothills behind it.
Read the guide →Rhinebeck, Red Hook, Tivoli, and Hyde Park — historic river towns thick with farms, cideries, and good food.
Read the guide →Millerton, Amenia, and the rolling farm country along the Connecticut line.
Read the guide →Black-dirt country and the Warwick orchards — apples, cideries, and one of the Valley's great farm towns.
Read the guide →Middleburgh, Cobleskill, and Sharon Springs — fertile valley farms and a foothill cluster of cideries.
Read the guide →Callicoon, the Delaware River, and a new generation of farms and makers in the western Catskills.
Read the guide →Cambridge, Salem, and Greenwich — maybe the most farm-dense loop in the whole Almanac.
Read the guide →Spa-town energy, a famous farmers' market, and the farms and orchards ringing the city.
Read the guide →Troy's collar-city markets and makers, plus the hilltown farms east of the river.
Read the guide →The Queen of American Lakes — a lake-and-beverage day with the farms of the southern Adirondacks.
Read the guide →Cold Spring, Garrison, and Brewster — a Metro-North-friendly day in the Highlands.
Read the guide →North Salem, Bedford, and Yorktown — surprising farm country an hour from the city, with a river-brewery arm.
Read the guide →Nyack and Piermont on the river, the Concklin and Davies farms, and the edge of Harriman.
Read the guide →Cooperstown, Fly Creek, Ommegang, and the Amish dairy country around Richfield Springs.
Read the guide →Looking for cideries, breweries, distilleries, and wineries instead? See Beverage Trails, or maple, makers, fairs, and more on Explore by Theme.
Run a farm stand or sell food from home? Put Your Farm on the Map is a free day-by-day planner for getting found.