Kinderhook

Food

• Bagel Thyme

Sights

• Vanderpoel house

• Martin van Buren house

• Van Alen house

Bike Shops

• Steiner’s Sports

Bike Routes

• Kinderhook Ramble 18 miles, mostly gentle.  Quiet riding through beautiful farm country, and a pleasant village.  500 vertical feet, hill index 1.6.  Start point:  Kinderhook.

• Wandering Northwest Columbia 38 miles, moderate hilliness.  Miles of quiet farm country in the west, beautiful hilltop views and long downhill cruising in the east, and several historic sites.  Start points:  Ghent, Chatham, Kinderhook, Schodack, Philmont.  2300 vertical feet, hill index 3.6 

• Grand Tour of Columbia County 3 miles, hilly.  Sweeping views, old houses, farms and lots of quiet roads, a waterfall or two -- and a long, beautiful downhill run.  (Also a 62-mile variation).  Start points Lake Taghkanic State Park, Livingston, Hudson, Kinderhook, Hillsdale, Copake Falls.  5000 vertical feet, hill index 4.3.

• Rip Van Winkle Bridge to Albany loop on both sides of the Hudson river -- 74 miles, moderate hills, from Catskill and Hudson to the Dunn Memorial Bridge between Albany + Rennselaer.  Lots of sweeping views across beautiful farm country, a variety of angles on the Catskill mountains and the Hudson River, and the new and old buildings of Albany.