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Message: [QUOTE="Fishy, post: 2146082, member: 38"] We live in the Hudson Valley - we're members of the Preserve, the running club holds events over there, etc., so we're over in that general area a few times a month. The Mountain House is [I]crazy [/I]expensive. At this time of year, you're spending $650 a night. During the summer...forget it. Best bet - park at one of the trail heads and pay $15 for a Preserve day pass or park at the Mountain House and pay $21 for a pass if you want a shorter hike. Go through the Labyrinth and the Crevasse and then go to Sky Top. Then....skip lunch at the Mountain House. I am a lousy source of restaurant advice. Pizza is pizza to me. I don't like Italian food, don't care for steak and I don't have a favorite beer because beer all tastes like beer to me. But I know German food because we grew up on it and I still really enjoy it. And there are two really great German restaurants on your way back out of New Paltz. There's the Mountain Brauhaus right on the corner of 44/55 and 299. And then there is perhaps my favorite restaurant, the GunkHaus. It's a few miles away down 44/55 on Maple Ave. (If anyone has heard of Hudson Bourbon, the distillery is right in that area as well and they also have a great restaurant with an amazing outdoor deck overlooking a mill creek.) A starter.... [URL="http://www.onlyinyourstate.com/new-york/lemon-squeeze-ny/"]Everyone In New York Should Try This Insane Hike At Least Once[/URL] [/QUOTE]