$549,000

2963 State Highway 166 sits on ±51.7 acres in Roseboom - the quiet, unhurried corner of Otsego County where the valley goes gold in October and your back boundary runs straight into 600 acres of state forest. That's not something you see in every home: your own woods connect directly to public land, so hiking, hunting, and just plain disappearing into the trees start at your back door, not a trailhead twenty minutes up the road. It's a c.1830 farmhouse that's kept its bones - hand-hewn beams, wide-plank floors, wainscot ceilings, the kind of period detail you can't fake and can't buy new. Three-plus bedrooms, two full baths (both recently redone), a kitchen with a woodstove, a hall library upstairs, a coffered-ceiling living room, a workshop, and a detached two-car garage with second floor store room. The roof, siding, windows, well, and electric are all done, and the whole house runs on efficient mini-split heat and air. You're buying a place that's ready to live in, not a punch list. For second-home buyers out of the Tri-State area this is about 3.5 hours from Manhattan - far enough to feel like real country, close enough to actually get to on a Friday night. And fall around here isn't a theme, it's the whole reason people fall for this part of the state: Apple picking down the road at Middlefield Orchard. Cider donuts at Fly Creek Cider Mill or Willy's Farm and Cider Mill. A corn maze and pumpkin patch at Fly Creek Valley, more pumpkins at Cullen Pumpkin Farm in Richfield Springs, and Fenimore Farm's Tractor Fest and Trick-or-Treat events a few minutes away in Cooperstown. Cherry Valley throws its own Falltoberfest right in the village - pumpkin carving, hayrides, the works. And when you want real mountains underfoot, the Catskills are an easy drive for hiking that actually earns the view. Then there's hunting season. Fifty-one acres bordering state forest means real access and real privacy - an actual place to put a stand and use the land the way it's meant to be used once hunting season opens.Cherry Valley-Springfield schools. Minutes from Cooperstown - the Hall of Fame, Glimmerglass, Fenimore Art Museum, the Otesaga, Leatherstocking Golf, Brewery Ommegang. This is the kind of place where you put your boots on, watch the leaves turn, and come back every fall because you want to, not because you have to.