With some terrific day trip options available in the surrounding area, having your own car makes good sense. Without one, it wouldn’t be half as easy to soak up all that Klin, 18 miles away, has to offer. Tchaikovsky House Museum, Arkady Gaidar House Museum and Klin Podvorye, Christmas Tree Ornament Exhibit alone make the drive out here worthwhile. The locals will also probably point you in the direction of Sergiyev Posad, 50 miles away. If you can only find time for one thing here, make sure it’s Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius. (But we’d also highly recommend Refectory Church of St Sergius and Gefsimansky Chernigovsky Skit.)