Tarrytown, NY
Sat. April 18- Sun. April 19 | 2026
The Flowering Mansion Weekend
A castle-like wonder, just up the Hudson River from NYC, is beautifully bedecked for spring.
This weekend in Tarrytown, NY:
Go wandering through a full-floral takeover of Lyndhurst Mansion, now celebrating its reopening for spring.
Continue the mansion theme by checking into an 1840s manor house set on 26 idyllic acres.
Experience the spring-infused flavors of Hong Kong, from atop a scenic perch along the Hudson River.
As always, your stay, meal and local experience are all bookable in one click.
Get the full story for the weekend.
Where you’re going: A hop, skip and jump (not even) from New York City.
Look what’s happening in these pictures.
This is Lyndhurst Mansion — a Gilded Age mansion kind of mansion — in Tarrytown, New York. It’s something to see anytime, but things are going to be roughly nine times as incredible in a few days.
Because it’s time for Flower House, a one-weekend affair celebrating the mansion’s grand spring reopening. What takes place here is nothing short of high art: more than 20 floral designers descend on the property to transform its stained-glass chambers and alcoves and powder rooms (every room in the house, in fact) into arrestingly arranged micro-exhibits.
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Each designer gets a space, and each space gets a remarkable transformation that complements the home, its history, and the blooming landscape out the windows.
You can move through at your own wandering pace, exploring all three floors of flowers, and the effect is immersive and theatrical. It’s a kind of green-thumbed Sleep No More with a cast of pert hydrangeas.
There will be oyster rolls in the exquisite restoration of the mansion’s 1894 bowling alley, a vintage sangria truck, and a flower market stocked with blooms and bulbs you can bring home to beautify your own non-mansion.
The Tarrytown vicinity, which includes Irvington and Sleepy Hollow, is absolutely brimming with Overnightisty things: the headless horseman bridge, Washington Irving’s home, and a thousand pockets of literary lore and history.
But we’ll save those for a return (which we shall). For now it’s all about springtime, immense floral creativity, and a fresh, high-life feeling, if only for a weekend, on the Hudson.
Interior mansion photos above via Lyndhurst.org; exterior by Ad Meskens
This weekend in Tarrytown, NY, discover…
The stay.
Photo via Tarrytown House Estate
Tarrytown House Estate
You’ll have your own Gilded Age mansion to stay in this weekend, too.
Tarrytown House Estatesits on 26 wooded acres above the Hudson. The centerpiece is the King Mansion, a Georgian Revival manor that feels so private and non-hotelish that it will feel as though it’s only through some series of comic misunderstandings that you’ve been invited to stay the night.
The (immaculate) grounds roll out in every direction, with views of the river and the ancient trees. And you can see Washington Irving’s home, Sunnyside, just down the way (we will hold a full digression on the literary history in these parts for a next trip, but you won’t stop us from mentioning it.)
You should go directly to the property’s gallery page and click wildly.
You’re reserved and pre-paid for Saturday night. Two double beds, sleeps up to four.
The day.
Photo via Lyndhurst.org
Flower House
We won’t go on and on about these flower-rooms, but Lyndhurst really is going to be a wonder.
We love that you get to just sort of prowl around the house at your leisure, and take in each designer’s unique curation of a room. And also that the grounds themselves are alive this weekend with food and drink (and more flowers).
It feels specific and intimate, and just the right scale and commitment level for a short escape.
You have tickets to roam Lyndhurst on Sunday.
The find.
Image via Transom Bookshop
Transom Bookshop
What a terrific sense of this place you get from owner Chris Steib’s own elegant writing about the origins of his shop.
“I designed and curated Transom Bookshop to feel as though you’ve crossed over into a new place,” says Steib. “One filled with possibility, excitement, wonder, and joy—a place where you can discover something unexpected.”
We’ll continue to quote:
“A well-executed piece of writing is a stuntman performing a controlled fall down a flight of stairs, making it look horrifyingly real, but then walking away unscathed at the end. It’s a joy, an astonishment, a wonder.”
This is the kind of person you want running your bookshop.
The food.
Image via Goosefeather
Goosefeather
Running the show here is James Beard-nominated chef Dale Talde, who you likely know if you’re a food person. He’s a former Top Chef contestant and author of the cookbook Asian American.
Goosefeather is the first concept from Food Crush Hospitality, founded by Talde and his wife, Agnes Chung, and is located on the grounds of your hotel. So not only is this place extremely well-regarded, but it’s also phenomenally convenient.
Part of Cantonese culinary ethos is that the main ingredient is the dish, and the food here tilts toward exquisitely presented core cuisine: dumplings, noodles and Cantonese barbecue.
You have reservations for 6pm on Saturday evening, with a pre-arranged food and drink credit for your party.
The tucked away.
Photo via Visit Sleepy Hollow
Old Croton Aqueduct Trail
This was originally a 19th-century engineering feat: a covered tunnel that conveyed water all the way from Croton, a town a bit north of Tarrytown, down into New York City. When the first rush of water reached Manhattan’s reservoirs in 1842, a formal celebration was held featuring “Croton cocktails,” a mix of lemonade and aqueduct-supplied water.
The tunnel is no longer in operation, but what remains is a 26-mile linear park tracing the old route, and it will take you right down to the Bronx if you follow it to the end.
A piece of the trail runs right through the Lyndhurst grounds, and it’s worth a little traipsing.
The evening mood.
RiverMarket
RiverMarket is the night move.
It’s on West Main Street in Tarrytown, and it frames itself around a local, farm-to-table sensibility; the cocktail list follows suit, with drinks built lavender, elderflower, citrus, smoke, herbs.
Very right for a flowery weekend.
Photo via RiverMarket Bar & Kitchen
Book it all in a click.
This Overnight includes:
Your stay at the Tarrytown House Estate. Reserved for Saturday, April 18, 2026. Sleeps up to four. Already paid for, ready to check in.
Tickets to the Flower House at Lyndhurst Mansion on Sunday, April 19, 2026.
Dinner at Goosefeather, reservations at 6pm on Saturday evening. Pre-paid food and drink credit of $100 for 1 guest, $170 for 2 guests, $220 for 3 guests, and $280 for 4 guests.
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