Kingston, N.Y. has a big inventory of cool things, such as a WWII PT boat, a farmers market and a model train club. But it also has a proximity problem — it’s too close to too many cool things.

For starters Kingston, the first capital of New York, is just 90 miles from New York City. There’s buses and trains nearby that make daily round trips to NYC. Kingston is also smack on the shoreline of the Hudson River with the Esopus and Rondout creeks coursing nearby, which offers kyackers and canoeists, and other water recreation types lots of opportunity for fun.
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