{"id":843435,"date":"2026-06-04T08:41:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T08:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/843435\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T08:41:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T08:41:45","slug":"7-upstate-new-york-hotels-worth-booking-for-their-pools-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/843435\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Upstate New York Hotels Worth Booking for Their Pools Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> Gardiner, Hudson Valley<\/p>\n<p>Step onto this picturesque Auberge Collection campus, in a meadow in the shadow of New York\u2019s iconic Shawangunk Mountains, and you feel almost as if you\u2019ve entered the world of a Hudson River School painting. It\u2019s that pretty. And for all its comforts, which are considerable\u2014the instant it opened its doors, it became the premier luxury escape in the Catskills\u2014the hotel rightly recognizes that nature is its greatest amenity. Located on a 140-acre site that was once a tree nursery and a dairy farm, Wildflower leans into the region\u2019s agricultural heritage with a working farm that supplies ingredients for cooking classes, the menu of the hotel\u2019s progressive New American restaurant, Clay, and many of the treatments at the excellent spa, Thistle. Guests can swing by to tour the crops, feed the animals, and collect eggs from the chicken coop (to take home or pass along to the kitchen staff at Clay to prepare for breakfast). It&#8217;s easy to continue drinking in the beauty of the place from the 65 rooms, all f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cntraveler.com\/gallery\/best-airbnbs-for-romantic-cabin-getaways\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reestanding cabins<\/a>, cottages, and suites, particularly in summer when wildflower-filled meadows, outdoor experiences, and mountain views are at their peak. \u2014J.A.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The pool scene:<\/strong> Open for the season since May 22, the outdoor pool overlooks wildflower meadows and the Sawangunk Ridge, boasting one of the Hudson Valley\u2019s most picturesque swim settings. Guests can order cocktails and light bites from the seasonal Dew Bar, open through September 30, while soaking up mountain views from sunrise to sunset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Location: Gardiner, Hudson Valley Step onto this picturesque Auberge Collection campus, in a meadow in the shadow of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":843436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,17054,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,2107,108176,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-843435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-hotels","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-shopping","tag-swimming-pools","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116690949677895172","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}