10 Most Peaceful Small Towns In Upstate New York

The secret to a peaceful small town in Upstate New York is usually water. Life in these places runs on lake time, and the people who live there take it seriously. Boats near the Cooperstown shore of Otsego Lake are capped at 5 mph. In Livingston Manor, even the parade follows a giant trout puppet down Main Street. Strung together, the ten towns below make one slow drive with a new river or lake at every stop. Nine of them had fewer than 2,000 residents at the last census, and the water is never more than a short walk away. One is a little over an hour from Grand Central by train, so getting onto lake time is easier than it sounds. Cold Spring Of all ten towns, Cold Spring is the easiest to reach without a car. Metro-North trains from Grand Central take a little over an hour, and the platform is at the foot of Main Street, with the Hudson just past the tracks.

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