Indian Food Festival & Diwali Mela
📍 Nyack
Celebrate Diwali at the Nyack Center with free admission to an afternoon of Indian music, dance and art. Food is sold and optional.
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Top things to do for visitors, each linked to its official source.
New York City Metro Area
📍 Nyack
Celebrate Diwali at the Nyack Center with free admission to an afternoon of Indian music, dance and art. Food is sold and optional.
Official site ↗📍 Irvington
Storyteller Jonathan Kruk performs The Legend of Sleepy Hollow outdoors at Washington Irving’s home.
Official site ↗📍 Croton-on-Hudson
Thousands of hand-carved jack o'lanterns lit along a walking trail at Van Cortlandt Manor.
Official site ↗📍 Sleepy Hollow
An outdoor Halloween village at Philipsburg Manor with storytellers, fire performers and the Headless Horseman.
Official site ↗📍 Valley Cottage
Community art celebration.
Official site ↗📍 Pelham Manor
A church-lawn fundraiser show with hundreds of antique, classic, exotic and hot-rod cars, run with the Bronx Mopars club at the corner of Pelhamdale Ave and Shore Rd.
Official site ↗📍 Pleasantville
Nonprofit film center in Westchester screening independent, foreign and documentary films.
Official site ↗📍 Sleepy Hollow
Beekman Avenue closes to cars for 145+ craft and food vendors, live music, a kids’ zone and the Headless Horseman.
Official site ↗📍 New Windsor
A art center in New Windsor. What sets it apart: large-scale sculpture and site-specific commissions shown outdoors across its landscape, under open sky (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Tarrytown
Historic 1885 theater hosting concerts, comedy and films.
Official site ↗📍 Port Chester
Restored 1926 concert hall in Port Chester.
Official site ↗📍 West Nyack (Palisades Center)
Five 60-minute themed escape rooms, including Treasure Island, Zombie Apocalypse and Sherlock's Library.
Official site ↗📍 Bear Mountain
Hessian Lake loop, the Perkins Drive overlook and Hudson Highlands trails. Walking in is free; the park charges a car fee on some dates. Trailside Museums & Zoo keep shorter daytime hours.
Official site ↗📍 Briarcliff Manor to Peekskill
A 12-mile unpaved county hiking trail.
Official site ↗📍 Piermont (Ash St)
Family Italian kitchen in riverside Piermont village, a short walk from the Piermont Pier at sunset.
Official site ↗📍 White Plains (Greenburgh)
A one-acre fenced dog run at 600 Dobbs Ferry Rd, with separate small-dog and all-dog areas and a wooded trail for leashed walks.
Official site ↗📍 Yonkers
An evening of live music, dance and participatory activities with the nonprofit Vanaver Caravan at the Hudson River Museum.
Official site ↗📍 Yonkers
Art, a restored 1870s mansion and a planetarium on the Hudson in Yonkers. Weekend planetarium shows.
Official site ↗📍 Yonkers
Art, a restored 1870s mansion and Hudson views. Free on first Friday evenings.
Official site ↗📍 New City
A 179-acre county park at 355 N Main St with an enclosed off-leash dog run (the county says it is for residents) and a creekside hiking trail along Crum Creek.
Official site ↗📍 Purchase (SUNY Purchase)
A big modern and contemporary art museum on the SUNY Purchase campus. Admission is currently free.
Official site ↗📍 Eastview to Baldwin Place
A 22-mile paved rail trail for walking and biking through northern Westchester.
Official site ↗📍 Upper Nyack
Flat riverside trail under the Hook Mountain cliffs, good for walking, biking and fishing. Walking in is free. 663 N Broadway.
Official site ↗📍 Yonkers to Croton
A flat 26-mile trail on top of the 1842 aqueduct, through river towns like Dobbs Ferry and Irvington.
Official site ↗📍 Piermont
A walkway about a mile long that juts into the Hudson, popular for birding, fishing and sunsets. Village parks are free; non-residents need a day permit to park on the pier itself.
Official site ↗📍 Valley Cottage
A 3.2-mile paved loop around a lake on the ridge above the Hudson. 299 Rockland Lake Rd.
Official site ↗📍 Piermont (Piermont Ave)
Classic French bistro in Piermont village with a garden, Wednesday wine nights and Thursday trivia.
Official site ↗📍 Southern Westchester
A 14-mile county trailway for walking and biking.
Official site ↗📍 Pocantico Hills
A well-known museum or garden worth a few hours.
Official site ↗📍 Stony Point
Revolutionary War battlefield on a rocky Hudson peninsula, plus the 1826 Stony Point Lighthouse, the oldest on the river. Entry to the battlefield is free. No dogs or bikes allowed. 44 Battlefield Rd.
Official site ↗📍 Yonkers
A free drop-in sketching workshop led by Carolina Amarillo in English and Spanish.
Official site ↗📍 Online — Rockland organizer
Arts Council of Rockland hosts a free online workshop on running a creative business.
Official site ↗📍 Sparkill
Wooded Palisades trails with views over Piermont Marsh. Route 9W.
Official site ↗📍 Ossining
Woodland trails around Teatown Lake. The nature center is under construction; trails stay open.
Official site ↗📍 Yonkers
Westchester teens can explore art and community through a free collaborative sculpture workshop with Westchester Youth Alliance and Reizck Project.
Official site ↗📍 White Plains
Private 60-minute escape rooms for 2–8 players in downtown White Plains, a short walk from the Metro-North station.
Official site ↗📍 Yonkers
A restored Gilded Age garden above the Hudson, with a walled Persian-style garden, a temple and columns, and river views. No dogs allowed. 945 N Broadway, Yonkers.
Official site ↗📍 Central Valley
A huge open-air outlet village about an hour north of the city, near Bear Mountain. Free to walk around; buses run from Port Authority. 498 Red Apple Ct, Central Valley, NY.
Official site ↗📍 Sleepy Hollow
A free, all-ages afternoon of mariachi, dance and family activities on Beekman Avenue.
Official site ↗📍 Westchester
A restaurant on Westerly Road. Open seven days. What sets it apart: a waterfront setting (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Westchester
A tapas and Italian restaurant on Main Street. Open 5 days a week. What sets it apart: live music (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Nyack
A bar on Main Street in Nyack. Open 5 days a week, until 1 AM on its latest nights. What sets it apart: karaoke (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Elmsford
A brewery on Saw Mill River Road in Elmsford. What sets it apart: brews its own beer on site (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Yonkers
A Spanish restaurant on McLean Avenue in Yonkers. Open seven days, until 2 AM on its latest nights. What sets it apart: live music (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Hastings-on-Hudson
An Italian restaurant on Warburton Avenue in Hastings-on-Hudson. Open every day but Monday. What sets it apart: speakeasy (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Congers
A farm in Congers. What sets it apart: a family-owned, fifth-generation farm since 1891 with over 5,000 trees and 27 apple varieties for pick-your-own (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Yonkers
A pub on Main Street in Yonkers. Open seven days, until 4 AM on its latest nights. What sets it apart: live music (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Beacon
A bar on Main Street in Beacon. Open seven days, until 1:30 AM on its latest nights. What sets it apart: arcade, pinball and karaoke (per its official site).
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