Kittatinny on the Delaware
- Food
- A picnic they invite you to pack
- Farm stand
- Barryville Farmers' Market, Callicoon Farmers Market
- Kids
- Marked for kids
Crowd level: Mixed. Go early, or pick a weekday
Good with kids
Best season The posted 2026 river trips ran May 16 through September 27. Camping dates on the same site ran longer, into late October, and camping is not a tube. In mid-October the float season they printed is over. Read the page before you drive next year.
The nearest checked version of a Phoenicia day: a rented tube, a short shuttle, and a float that ends in a small river hamlet. Kittatinny has been putting people on the Delaware for decades. The 2026 river-trip season they posted ran May 16 through September 27.
Worth knowing
Which trip
Ask for Minisink to Barryville if you want the novice tube. They describe it for adults and children who fit their open-bottom tubes and can float on their own. They do not print a numeric age. Westfall to River Beach is the other short novice tube, on the Pennsylvania side. The Lackawaxen dam-release trip is rafts on release days, not this float.
What to bring
Footwear is required for tubing. The company says to wear a life jacket, and the Minisink notes call jackets strongly encouraged. Open-bottom tubes put your feet in the river. Pack the picnic. Leave the day if the water is high enough that the Class 1 and 2 sections stop looking mild.
A second desk on the same river
Indian Head, also on Route 97, posts its own tubing, including a mild Pond Eddy to Knights Eddy run, and its page requires riders over 65 pounds. That is a different company and a different rule. Read the site you are actually booking.
With kids. The novice tubes are open to children who fit the tube and can float independently. A child who cannot do that stays off the river. There is no printed age on the trip page.
With a group. The shuttle is how a party does the day. This page did not find a private-river booking. Weekends fill. A dam-release day is a harder river than the three-mile tube.
The short version
Kittatinny's own site calls the company a pioneer on the Delaware, with bases in Barryville, New York, and Milford, Pennsylvania, about two to three hours from New York City. The tube trip that fits this row is Minisink to Barryville: three miles, about two to three hours, long calm pools, the mouth of the Lackawaxen, the Zane Grey house, the Roebling Aqueduct, then a series of small rapids into Barryville.
Food nearby
A picnic they invite you to pack
Their river page says to bring lunch and stop on the bank. Barryville is a hamlet, not a restaurant row.
Farms and stands nearby
Barryville Farmers' Market
You buy from the person who grew or made it. On the market's 2026 vendor list: Beaver Dam Brook Farms for vegetables, herbs, strawberries, and flowers; Fresh Meadow Farm for organic produce; Hilly Acres Farm for pasture-raised pork, beef, chicken, lamb, and turkey, USDA processed; Twin Brook Farms for beef, pork, lamb, goat, veal, pasture-raised chicken, and eggs; Tonjes Farm Dairy for milk, cream, butter, cheeses, and maple; OHF Orchards for fruit. The full list is longer. This page does not copy every stall.
Season. The market site says Saturdays, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., May 16 through October 31, 2026, on the grounds of Barryville United Methodist Church, 3405 NY-97. That is the line they printed for 2026. Next year, read the site again.
Useful if you are camping and cooking. Parking they name: the Harrison-Rasmussen Funeral Home, the River Road circle by the bridge, and along 97 where a business welcomes market cars. The site does not print a cash-only rule or a meat pre-order. Ask the farmer at the stall.
Official pageCallicoon Farmers Market
A producer-only market. Goods must be grown or made within 75 miles. Pure Catskills, a watershed farm directory, lists Tonjes Farm Dairy here on Sundays: creamline milk and cheese from Mary and Tim Tonjes in Callicoon. The market homepage did not print this week's stalls. The directory is not the vendor board.
Season. The market site says Sundays, 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., year-round. It says the current location is outdoors at A. Dorrer Drive, and it also lists an indoor address at 8 Creamery Road. Check which door is open.
Sunday, so it does not overlap the Barryville Saturday. This desk did not find farm-store hours on a site of Tonjes's own. Buy the dairy at the market.
Official page