Split Rock Yacht Club in Essex, New York maintains a small but active racing fleet of Cape Cod Knockabouts and Lake Champlain Sailabouts, and racing happens every Saturday in summer season. With regattas each Saturday hosted by the club you are welcomed to come and enjoy a wonderful interest in yachting and yacht racing on the beautiful waters of Lake Champlain. Split Rock Yacht Club invites members to participate as skippers and crew on private boats, but they don't teach sailing, members must learn from private instruction and by crewing. With a well maintained fleet available, members are welcome to come sailing and racing.READ MORE

Chez Lin and Rays in Essex, New York is a New American restaurant where good food and fine wine combine with breathtaking lake views, marina views, and the Green mountains of Vermont. Enjoy a wonderful new American cuisine experience in a bistro inspired setting with outdoor seating and a waiter service. A casual atmosphere and bistro fare with bright bold flavors take you to a new level of dining, with meals made from the freshest ingredients from local farms and suppliers. Chez Lin and Rays ensures a wonderful dining experience, and it's a place you'll come back to time and again, for the food and views, they're closed for winter though.READ MORE

Lake Champlain Ferries offers reliable, friendly and safe lake crossings from Charlotte, Vermont to Essex, New York, from Grand Isle, Vermont to Plattsburgh, New York and from Burlington, Vermont to Port Kent, New York. These Vermont to New York crossings are scenic and operate 24 hours year round, and there are also wonderful cruises available with lunch, or narrated afternoon trips, or weekend brunch cruises and entertainment filled dinner cruises, aboard the Northern Lights cruise ship. Lake Champlain Ferries and their fleet look forward to having you on board.READ MORE

The Essex Inn on the Adirondack Coast in Essex, New York has been completely renovated and this 200 year old landmark now offers a delightful stay in eleven brand new rooms, five of them suites, and there are additional accommodations available half a block away. The Essex Inn Dining Room and Tavern brings you Room 12, a fabulous farm to table restaurant with great menu, and there's outside seating available on the porch in summer months. Also here is the CFES Center with gorgeous Adirondack crafted furnishings and 19th Century Dutch fireplace, perfect for private events, corporate meetings, weddings, rehearsal dinners and celebrations for up to 99 guests. Come for a fabulous stay and your dining pleasure, it's all here.READ MORE

The Essex Shipyard is located in the charming port of Essex on the New York side and offers boaters newly renovated, safe, modern and convenient services, including comfortable slips, modern amenities and breathtaking views of the Green Mountains, Adirondacks and Lake Champlain. The Essex Shipyard offer new concrete floating docks with water and electricity, and the waters remain calm no matter how rough the lake gets, because of the concrete bulkheads protection. Seasonal and transient boaters are welcome, and there's free WIFI, BBQ facilities and picnic table, swimming and more, they also have overnight mooring facilities, a boat ramp and trailer and truck parking as well as the restaurant Chez Lin and Rays for exquisite dining pleasure, come enjoy.READ MORE

The Pink Pig Cottage Antiques in Essex, New York brings you one of a kind, unique authentic Country Cottage Style Furniture, Vintage, Antiques and painted furniture. Looking for exquisite antique furnishings including antique iron beds, industrial furniture, home decor, primitive antiques, shabby chic furniture and more, it's all here and more. The Pink Pig Cottage Antiques offers a stunning range of brand name goods, one of a kind items, bedding, vintage style jewelery, and even spa items including perfumes, unique candles and handmade soap and body products. Come visit for a wonderful vintage experience, or if you see something fabulous you must have, order on-line.READ MORE

Essex Farm in Essex, New York offers sustainable practices of grass-fed beef, pastured pork, chicken, eggs, fifty different kinds of vegetables, milk, grains and flour, fruit, herbs, maple syrup, and soap production. They have an all you can eat membership program on a fee structure, where members come to the farm on Fridays, from 3pm to 7pm, and take what they need for the week, in any quantity or combination they choose. Essex Farm also offer eco tourism farm tours, and members are also encouraged to hike the farm, and visit the fields and animals, or volunteer for harvest and field work. Essex farm is one farm for all your food.READ MORE

Lake Champlain Yoga and Wellness in Essex, New York are here to assist with your wellbeing, by cultivating balanced wellness with yoga therapy, acupuncture, massage and organic facials and more. Lake Champlain Yoga and Wellness together with a host of wellness mentors and qualified wellness professionals, welcome you to come stretch, relax and move in one of their multi level Weekly Yoga Classes, then go on to a transformational session of Yoga therapy, enjoy a massage and organic facial and acupuncture treatments, it's all here, and it's all about you. Lake Champlain Yoga and Wellness offers alternative and holistic health methods to improve your health and wellness, book today.READ MORE

Essex Provisions in picturesque Essex, New York are a coffee shop, cafe and market and are also purveyors of fine products from New York and Vermont including great food, exceptional cheeses, paperware, hand made goods and small producer goods. Essex Provisions has parking and spectacular views, come enjoy a sandwich, do some shopping and enjoy a wonderfully modest priced market. As they say themselves, it's where the elite meet to eat, come see for yourself and drink in the breathtaking views, it's a wonderful experience.READ MORE

The Neighborhood Nest in Essex, New York is a Gathering Place for Art, Antiques and Nature and offers rare, wonderful and unique antique treasures, as well as garden miniatures by The Wee Garden. The Neighborhood Nest offers stunning collectibles, original artworks by Barb Page of nature paintings, as well as painted furniture, art cards, original canvasses and more. A visit here should not be rushed and the Neighborhood Nest welcomes you to touch and explore, come see beautiful photography items and framed art featuring scenery along Lake Champlains shores, and The Wee Garden has everything you'll need to grow your own miniature garden, come visit.READ MORE