Kinderhook

Kinderhook is a village and a township in Columbia County in the state of New York. The village of Kinderhook is a pretty town in a very rural area of New York State. Its center is small and well worth looking at, and some very nice private houses extend for some way to the south on Route 9, blending without a break into the village of Stuyvesant.

Understand


The village of Kinderhook lies within the township of the same name.

By plane

 * Albany International Airport, 737 Albany-Shaker Rd, Albany. Close, but not very international.
 * Stewart International Airport, 1180 First St, New Windsor, +1 845 564-2100. An alternative to Albany. Allegiant Air, American Eagle, and JetBlue operate flights from Florida and Philadelphia (Mar 2021).

By car
US Route 9 traverses the village and — although mostly one lane each way — is the major north-south road in the area.

Go next

 * South: Hudson, about 20 minutes' drive to the south-southwest (but mostly on Route 9 South), has a beautiful, historical downtown area to walk through, centered on Warren St.
 * North: Troy is a bit more than a half hour's drive north. Its center of town is generally regarded as the best-preserved 19th-century town center in the United States. The lovely city of Saratoga Springs is about a half hour's drive further north.
 * East/Southeast: Berkshires. The border with Massachusetts is less than an hour's drive to the east. The Litchfield Hills are about the same distance to the southeast.
 * West/Southwest: Catskills. Catskill State Park is about 1½ hours' drive.