2 Best Hotels in Tarrytown, Hudson Valley

With two impressive towers and a stone exterior, this magnificent mansion, completed in 1910, sits amid 11 hilltop acres overlooking the Hudson River and was modeled after Lismore Castle in County Waterford, Ireland. The main tower is the highest point in Westchester County. Rooms occupy the original house and a stucco wing, where you'll also find the THANN Sanctuary Spa that offers holistic spa treatments. Rooms are elegant, decorated with antiques, silk curtains, and four-poster beds. The food at the Equus restaurant is as refined as the surroundings.

Two 19th-century mansions—one Georgian, the other a stone Gothic Revival that's a National Trust site—dominate this conference-oriented property, once home to tobacco heiress Mary Duke Biddle. The grounds, high above the Hudson River, are loaded with recreational diversions and include massive specimen trees and antique garden statues amid 26 rolling acres. Most of the mansion rooms serve as restaurants and other public meeting places; modern wings provide the bulk of the guest rooms, each with a desk and free Wi-Fi.