Cantina 229

Refined 1760 hotel featuring elegant, quaint rooms & an upscale restaurant with a garden terrace. Built in 1760 as a stagecoach relay stop, this refined hotel is 6 miles from Sandisfield State Forest and 12 miles from Bard College at Simon's Rock. The 11 elegant, quaint rooms (set in the inn and an adjacent guesthouse) feature antique furnishings and en-suite bathrooms. Some offer front porches, fireplaces, 4-poster beds and whirlpool or claw-foot tubs. There's an upscale, intimate restaurant serving a prix-fixe menu on select weekday evenings; al fresco dining is offered on a canopied garden terrace in season. Parking is free.

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