"One of the things you'll hear people talking about in disbelief when you sit at the bar, around the fire pit, or at hearty breakfasts on snowy, cozy mornings at New York’s Wildflower Farms is that you are just a little more than an hour from the George Washington Bridge, that traffic-choked portal to a very different world. The property is the latest and perhaps greatest of the dizzying number of new hotels and resorts to open in Hudson Valley and the Catskills over the last few change-packed years. 65 country-chic rooms are tucked into spacious, individual cabins with breathtakingly luxurious bathing suites, along 140 idyllic acres. The resort, managed by California’s Auberge Resorts, is a sybaritic hideout of year-round outdoor hot tubs, fine dining, and a brilliant bar with a banging New York State wine list, cozied up to the geologically unique Shawangunk Ridge." - David Landsel