Things to Do in Fishkill, NY for Adults

Fishkill has enough packed into a few square miles to fill an afternoon without ever getting on the highway: a 300-year-old homestead, a farm that has grown apples since 1914, a Main Street strip of family-run restaurants, and a thousand acres of state trails, all within about fifteen minutes of Route 9. Here is how to spend a day here as an adult, no kids' itinerary required.

What is Main Street Fishkill known for?

Main Street Fishkill, running along NY 52 between Cary and Hopewell Streets, has been a federally recognized historic district since March 20, 1973. It holds 108 buildings dating from the late 1700s through the late 1800s, with Greek Revival storefronts and homes forming the core of the streetscape.

The centerpiece for history is the Van Wyck Homestead Museum at 504 Route 9, a Dutch Colonial house built in 1732 by farmer Cornelius Van Wyck. During the Revolutionary War it served as the officers' headquarters for the Fishkill Supply Depot, a Continental Army logistics hub that George Washington, Lafayette, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay all passed through. The Fishkill Historical Society, which has owned the building since 1962, opens it for guided tours every Saturday and Sunday from June through October, 1PM to 4PM, last tour at 3:30PM. A block away, Trinity Episcopal Church at 1200 Main Street anchors the district's other end, its steeple visible over the rooftops for most of the walk between the two.

When is the Fishkill Farms Fall Harvest Festival?

A few minutes east in Hopewell Junction, Fishkill Farms has been in the Morgenthau family since 1914 and still runs its own cidery, Treasury Cider, off its own apples. Its Fall Harvest Festival runs every Saturday and Sunday from September 12 through November 1, 2026, plus Columbus Day, Monday, October 12, with pick-your-own apples and pumpkins, wagon rides through the orchard, and a corn maze. It is worth confirming the current weekend's hours directly on fishkillfarms.com before driving out, since farm schedules shift with the weather and the harvest.

Where can you eat in Fishkill, NY?

Main Street doubles as Fishkill's restaurant row. Stephano's Ristorante has run Italian plates at 1053 Main Street for more than twenty years, Sotano Food & Wine at 1036 Main Street works in Northern Mediterranean cooking, and Il Figlio Enoteca at 992 Main Street rounds out the Italian end of the block. For something more casual, the Tomato Cafe at 1123 Main Street serves pizza and sandwiches most of the week. All four sit close enough together, and close enough to the historic district, that parking once and walking covers the whole strip.

Are there hiking trails near Fishkill?

Stony Kill Farm Environmental Education Center sits on NY 9D in the Town of Fishkill (mailing address 79 Farmstead Lane, Wappingers Falls), a state property of more than 1,000 acres run by the Stony Kill Foundation for the DEC. Six marked trails cover the property, from the wheelchair-accessible, half-mile Woodland Trail to the 2.5-mile Freedom Trail with its two wooden bridges, crossing hardwood forest, open meadow, and pond edges along the way. Grounds and trails stay open sunrise to sunset every day, and the working barn, with its cows, pigs, and goats, opens most Saturdays and Sundays from 11AM to 1PM between February and November.

Finish at Farmers Choice Fishkill

However the day breaks down, the store sits close to everything above. Farmers Choice Fishkill is at 18 Westage Drive on the Route 9 and I-84 corridor, a short drive from Main Street, Fishkill Farms, and Stony Kill Farm alike, with parking right at the door. It is open 8AM to 10PM Sunday through Wednesday and 8AM to 11PM Thursday through Saturday.

Order Now from the Fishkill menu before you head out and it is typically ready by the time you park, or stop in and let a Farm Hand walk you through the shelf. Bring a valid 21+ ID; New York adult-use cannabis is open to anyone 21 or older, no medical card required.

If you are coming from Beacon, Hopewell Junction, or Wappingers Falls, the Fishkill store is the closest Farmers Choice to all three, each roughly ten to fifteen minutes down local roads. Save any purchase for home: the historic district, the farms, and the state park land above are all public property, and our guide to New York cannabis laws covers where consumption is and is not allowed.