Hudson Valley.
The Hudson Valley is where the boutique-hotel renaissance of the last decade started. Hudson went from rust-belt river town to design-capital-of-the-Northeast between 2013 and 2020. Warren Street alone has eight hotels we list. But the valley is bigger than Hudson — Kingston, Beacon, Rhinebeck, Tivoli, Stone Ridge, Amenia, and the western Catskills edge all contribute. Every hotel here is independently owned. Chains excluded.
Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spa
Seventy-five-acre Hudson estate dating to 1680 — 17 accommodations, a spa, and an organic farm that actually cooks for you.
INNESS
225 acres where design, farming, and dinner are the same project.
Pocketbook Hotel & Baths
2025. A 1890s pocketbook factory rebuilt by Charlap Hyman & Herrero. The baths are the reason.
The Maker Hotel
Theatrical, layered, and collected — the Maker is a mood you can book.
Troutbeck
A 1765 literary estate on 250 acres — where Thoreau and Emerson actually slept.
Hasbrouck House
A 1759 Dutch stone farmhouse, now a wellness-forward country inn.
Hotel Kinsley
A 42-room hotel scattered across four historic Kingston buildings.
Hotel Lilien
An intimate Tivoli historic, restored with restraint.
Hudson Whaler
A restored Hudson historic, 2024's Best of Hudson Valley winner.
Rivertown Lodge
A 1920s Hudson cinema reborn as the town's most quietly confident hotel, via Workstead.
The Amelia Hudson
A 19th-century Queen Anne on a quiet Hudson side street.
The Herwood Inn
Four suites named for iconic female musicians — Carole, Aretha, Joni, Stevie.
The Hudson Milliner
A guesthouse run by two Brooklyn artists — original work in every room.
The Millbrook Inn
A classic Dutchess County country inn, quiet and well-kept.
The Rhinecliff
An 1854 riverside building, nine balconied rooms, 170-plus years of Hudson River history.
The Roundhouse
Built inside the exoskeleton of an old Beacon fabric mill, over a waterfall.
The Six Bells
Cottagecore done right — canopy beds, antique-style wallpaper, 2025 AD Design Award.
The Stewart House
An 1883 Italianate boarding house on Athens's waterfront. Nine rooms, Art Deco bar, wood-fired tavern.
Wm. Farmer & Sons
A 15-room boarding & barroom on South Front — Hudson's quiet farm-to-table classic since 2015.