Beaverkill Covered Bridge

If you are driving your kids up north to visit Binghamton University, stop off in the small town of Livingston Manor. Livingston Manor has a great coffee/ pastry shop, a restaurant or two, and an out door / hang out fire pit restaurant. As you leave town on old route 17 you will find brewery after brewery wherein one can sample the local 12% beers. Check out the covered bridges on the way to Roscoe. They are a little off the beaten path but worth the effort to find. Eventually you arrive in downtown Roscoe. I'm being facetious. Roscoe is only one block long, but on that block are four story brick buildings, on one side only. Very strange. An Italian restaurant bookends at one end, an old caboose and lumber yard at the other, and another distillery is tucked around behind. Roscoe is like a movie set. All they lack is a pool hall, a woman with too much make-up on the corner holding a cigarette, and a bootlegger in an old milk truck slinking around. If you've made more than one stop at the local breweries, you might consider spending the night. For that there is always the Rockland motel if you want to experience something close to being inside a Hitchcock movie, or you could try one of the several newly renovated B&B's! Don't speed when you get back on route 17 proper. The police are waiting for their catch, like the fly fishermen wading in the streams below.