The best independent hotels within 3 hours of New York.

2.5h from the city. Five rooms, Michelin Key, run by former New York restaurant pros. George Bailey's house, sort of.

2.5h from the city. A 2024 16-room reimagining of a 1918 Windham hotel — by the team behind Contra and Wildair.

2.1h from the city. Cabin-style suites on six riverfront acres in Mount Tremper. Full kitchens, private decks, Esopus Creek out the back door.

2.1h from the city. Sixteen rooms a block from Greenport Harbor. Michelin Key, rooftop bar, the North Fork's only serious design hotel.

2.5h from the city. Eighteen-room boutique motel at the base of East Rock Mountain, minutes from downtown Great Barrington.

2.2h from the city. Five adults-only micro-suites on the river. Self-serve luxury.

1.7h from the city. 225 acres where design, farming, and dinner are the same project.

2.3h from the city. Two acres of former farmland, 21 architect-designed cottages. The quiet luxury option in the loud Hamptons.

1.8h from the city. Clean-lines modernist in West Philly — quiet, specific, the opposite of the Marriott downtown.

1.8h from the city. Six mini-apartments in Old City designed by a local creative collective — the best Airbnb-style stay in Philly.

2.4h from the city. From the Rivertown Lodge owners — new-build cabins and lodge rooms in Leeds. Michelin Key.

1.3h from the city. Seven rooms above a village restaurant on the quiet, unfashionable side of the bay — the anti-Hamptons Hamptons stay.

1.9h from the city. A 19th-century former women's club in Rittenhouse — twelve rooms, female-forward design, under-the-radar.

0.8h from the city. Nine rooms in a quiet Bradley Beach side street — a labor of love for its owner, run like a guesthouse.

0.8h from the city. Adults-only, 16-room boutique in downtown Asbury — Heirloom restaurant does the cooking.

2.1h from the city. Creekside cabins built from scratch in 2018 — Woodstock's quietest boutique, no bar, no restaurant, on purpose.

2.7h from the city. A 1874 Prohibition speakeasy turned nine-room boutique, run by Kelly and Bryan Binder. Café on the ground floor.

2.2h from the city. Layered, lived-in, and photographed a thousand times on Instagram — but earns it.

1.9h from the city. A 1765 literary estate on 250 acres — where Thoreau and Emerson actually slept.

2.5h from the city. An 1883 Italianate boarding house on Athens's waterfront. Nine rooms, Art Deco bar, wood-fired tavern.

2.1h from the city. A Woodstock native's Novogratz-designed revival of a '70s bi-level motel. Turntables in every room.

1.5h from the city. Seventy-five-acre Hudson estate dating to 1680 — 17 accommodations, a spa, and an organic farm that actually cooks for you.

2.1h from the city. An 1870 Dutch Colonial summer home with four rooms and serious harbor views. Proper porch.

2.1h from the city. A restored 1870 farmhouse with lime-wash walls and custom-built furniture.