The Esopus at Phoenicia
The creek is still the reason to stop. The tube rental is not running.
- Food
- Phoenicia Diner
- Farm stand
- Phoenicia Farmers Market
- Lodging
- Phoenicia
Crowd level: Easy. Busy only at the obvious hour
Best season There is no rental season to plan until an operator posts one. Summer weekends still bring people to town. That is not a tube ticket.
The creek is still there, under the bridge and past Main Street. The tubing rental people remember is not. Do not book a float from a page that still talks as if the shuttle is running.
Worth knowing
Do not treat it as open
Town Tinker's site still shows a 2021 closure and the old Memorial Day through September hours. Those hours are the old business. Roundups that name the rental as a current Phoenicia outfitter are behind the owner's own account. If a sale closes, wait for a season announcement before you drive up for a tube.
Water
The creek is cold mountain water, and the level moves with reservoir releases. Nobody is posting a daily go or no-go for a rental shuttle anymore. Do not pick a number off an old blog and call it today's flow.
Do not improvise the old run
After the rental closed, paddlers wrote that the creek was no longer being cleared. An older American Whitewater note warned of a river-wide strainer below the Bridge Street bridge. That note is not a current survey. It is a reason to leave the tube in the car.
Town Tinker
Town Tinker Tube Rental is not operating. Do not plan the day around that shed.
The short version
Town Tinker Tube Rental, at 10 Bridge Street, was the Phoenicia outfitter. Owner Harry Jameson last ran it in 2019 and then retired. Its own site still says closed for the 2021 season. The Overlook reported on April 10, 2026 that the business was for sale and that Jameson had been talking to a buyer who hoped to reopen. That is a conversation, not a season. This desk did not find a second Phoenicia rental with a 2026 operating page.
Food nearby
Phoenicia Diner
Owner Mike Cioffi’s about page says the diner, built in 1962, serves food from Catskills and Hudson Valley farms when they can get it. The homepage prints 5681 Route 28 and hours of 8:00 am–6:00 pm every day but Wednesday, first come, no reservations.
Their pageFarms and stands nearby
Phoenicia Farmers Market
A producer market for groceries in town. The site updates the vendor list each week.
Season. Sundays, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., rain or shine, at Parish Field, past the post office and near the Tanbark Trail. The homepage names the outdoor season as May 17 through October 25. The outdoor-market page states the rule as the third Sunday in May through the last Sunday in October. In 2026 those are the same dates. This desk did not find a winter indoor market on their site.
SNAP and the Fresh Connect match are redeemed at the market table, then spent with vendors who show the sign. Leave the spots by the field entrance for handicap parking. They suggest Main Street or the St. Francis Church lot, and they ask you not to block driveways or the supermarket. A rental kitchen can cook from this market. It does not reopen the tube rental.
Official page
Staying in Phoenicia – snapshot (lodging only)
Last checked: 2026-10-16. We recommend; you book directly. Prices are nightly, low–high by season, with a source. “From” prices depend on your dates. Items we couldn't verify are marked †.
The quiet base: Phoenicia. The lodge has hammocks on the creek. Peekamoose Blue Hole is the swim nearby, not a place with its own inn on this list.
Inns, B&Bs, farm stays, guesthouses, campgrounds
- Phoenicia Lodge, Phoenicia
- Type.
- Independent lodge and cottages
- Price (low–high).
- Booking city page "from $192.24, 1 night, 2 adults" (plat, search copy, unverified)
- Good for.
- Strong: suite for 2 adults + 3 kids, fire pit
- Book via.
- Booking found: https://www.booking.com/reviews/us/hotel/phoenicia-lodge.html ; Expedia found: https://www.expedia.com/Phoenicia-Hotels-Phoenicia-Lodge.h110982919.Hotel-Information
- Why we like it.
- Hammocks on the creek
Vacation rentals
- Phoenicia Farmhouse
- Sleeps.
- 6
- Price (low–high).
- From $365, average $385 over the next 90 days, +$275 cleaning (manager calendar, search copy) unverified
- Good for.
- Sleeps 6, trampoline
- Book via.
- Red Cottage (direct)
- Why we like it.
- Sleeps 6, trampoline
Know before you book: The lodge price is a Booking search copy and is unverified. The farmhouse price is a manager-calendar search copy and is unverified.
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