Start from 38 curated places around Sleepy Hollow, NY, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Goosefeather
A Michelin-noted Hong Kong-style Cantonese restaurant set inside a beautifully appointed manor house on the grounds of the Tarrytown House Estate. The menu leans into char siu, noodles, and dim sum staples elevated with seasonal touches, and the dining room gives the whole meal an unhurried quality.
Bistro 12
An intimate ten-table room on Main Street where the menu wanders confidently between Portuguese, French, and Italian. Pork with clams in wine sauce sits alongside braised rabbit and grilled octopus on escarole — the tight space and personal service make it feel like a neighborhood spot that happens to cook at a serious level.
Trails & outdoors
Rockefeller State Park Preserve — Swan Lake Loop
A gravel carriage path loop through the heart of the 1,700-acre Rockefeller Preserve, passing the 24-acre Swan Lake and winding through mature oak and tulip tree forest with occasional horse riders sharing the trails. The 45-mile carriage road network spans the full preserve, and the Swan Lake loop is the best introduction.
Rockwood Hall Loop
Located at the western edge of the Rockefeller Preserve in Sleepy Hollow, this loop circles a historic pond with sweeping Hudson River views, passing rhododendron blooms in spring and wooden footbridges over a brook. The shorter loop format and dramatic river panoramas make it the go-to for visitors who want maximum scenery per mile.
Things to do
Kykuit Estate Tours
Guided tours of the six-story Rockefeller manor house and its extraordinary terraced gardens, which hold one of America's greatest private collections of 20th-century sculpture — Picassos, Calders, and Magrittes displayed outdoors against Hudson River views. Multiple tour formats range from a focused one-hour house visit to a longer garden-and-sculpture experience including underground art galleries.
Lyndhurst Mansion Tours
One-hour guided tours of America's finest Gothic Revival mansion covering two floors of original Gilded Age collections — paintings, furniture, and decorative arts in rooms that read like a time capsule of 19th-century wealth. The National Trust property also offers behind-the-scenes tours of servants' quarters and the mansion tower when available.
Landmarks & sights
Washington Irving's Sunnyside
The meticulously restored riverside cottage where Washington Irving lived the last 25 years of his life — a charming, oddly shaped house he built up from a Dutch stone farmhouse with towers, weather vanes, and a wisteria-covered porch. Guides in period dress lead tours through rooms still filled with the author's writing desk, books, and personal belongings, and the ten-acre grounds include a pond, meadow, and the Hudson-facing garden he designed himself.
Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow
Built in 1685, this is the oldest church in New York State — a spare stone structure that predates the Revolution by nearly a century and became world-famous when Washington Irving set the chase scene from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow in its churchyard. The adjacent Old Dutch Burying Ground is open year-round, and the churchyard itself, with its weathered 17th- and 18th-century headstones, rewards unhurried time.