Not Your Father's Woodstock

Sales in second-home mecca Ulster County, NY, which includes the town of Woodstock, bucked the downward trend of some Northeast real estate in 2004. Demand is strong and 60 percent of buyers seek weekend places. I spent the past weekend there, and we're not talking a hippie haven any longer. Sign of things to come: 652-unit Hidden Forest, a gated community proposed in the village of Hurley for those 55 or over.