Pickers Nation

A converted ice house along Route 9W in Ravena, in the town of Coeymans, now holds twenty five separate antique and collectible dealers under the name Pickers Nation, part of a small cluster of shops along what locals call the Ravena antiques trail. The building itself is part of the draw: what was once cold storage for the ice trade that served the Hudson River corridor has been reworked into a warren of themed rooms, with one area organized around children’s toys, another around books, and a glass case near the entrance devoted to smaller collectibles like stamps, postcards, and watches. That layout means a single visit can turn up vintage kitchenware, primitives, furniture, artwork, and clothing in addition to the more traditional antique smalls that give the shop its name, and because each of the twenty five dealers manages their own booth, the mix changes as often as any individual vendor restocks. Pickers Nation sits roughly midway between Albany and Catskill along Route 9W, making it a natural stop for anyone working the wider Hudson Valley antiques circuit rather than a single destination shop. Regular hours run Tuesday through Friday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., with Saturday hours starting earlier at 10 a.m. and running to 5 p.m., and the shop is closed on Mondays, a schedule posted consistently across its own listings and social channels. Reviews of the shop describe an almost endless selection spread across the old ice house’s rooms, with shoppers noting that buying multiple items at once tends to bring better pricing from individual dealers, a common courtesy in multi vendor cooperative shops where each booth holder sets their own terms. Pickers Nation is listed as part of the AntiqueTrail.com network, a regional directory that groups together small, independently run antique cooperatives across the Northeast, which has helped connect the Ravena shop with a wider circuit of pickers and collectors beyond its immediate Greene and Albany County customer base. The shop maintains an active presence on both Facebook and Instagram, posting new finds and booth updates for regulars who like to check in before making the drive out along the river. For collectors chasing something specific, whether that is a set of vintage postcards, an unusual primitive tool, or a piece of mid century kitchenware, the themed room layout inside the old ice house makes browsing more navigable than a typical undivided antique mall, even with twenty five dealers worth of inventory to sort through. Its riverside location between two of the region’s larger antiquing towns, Albany and Catskill, keeps it firmly on the map for anyone planning a full day of Hudson Valley picking. Pickers Nation is a twenty five dealer antique and collectible cooperative housed in a converted ice house on Route 9W in Ravena, offering themed rooms of vintage furniture, primitives, toys, books, and collectibles as a core stop on the Hudson Valley’s Ravena antiques trail.