Travel: Sensational Saugerties


I’ll admit: I was nervous about traveling out of state during 2020 – the year when the world was turned upside down because of the coronavirus pandemic. But I kept my eyes peeled for possible, drivable getaways to relatively nearby destinations with low numbers of COVID-19 infections.

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I Escaped N.J. for an Early Autumn Getaway to New York State and it Cured My COVID-19 Blues

It was late summer – having spent almost all my free time chilling out on various New Jersey beaches – when the idea of an out-of-state vacation took hold. The coronavirus pandemic had squelched mine (and millions of other people’s) tentative 2020 overseas and island-hopping plans. But, as various East Coast states started opening up again, the idea of a road trip became a real possibility.

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Metamorphosis in Saugerties, NY

Saugerties is having a moment. Driving in from the south on Route 9W, across the Esopus Creek's Hudson River delta, you wind steeply uphill and are delivered into one of the most alluring little shopping districts in the Hudson Valley. Partition Street is narrow. The tightly clustered historic architecture and the current roster of well-appointed stores and quality restaurants offers more than one might rightly expect from a village with a population of 4,000 people.

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