The Widow Jane Mine has been the site of poetry readings, Taiko drumming, "all-night raves, Halloween horror shows and role-playing vampire games". It is also one of the few mines in Rosendale that is almost completely horizontal, and is part of the Snyder Estate Natural Cement Historic District. Rosendale hosts several annual festivals. The Rosendale Street Festival, held in the end of July on Main Street, showcases local talent and celebrates the birthday of Rosendale icon, Uncle Willy. Rosendale has held an annual pickle festival since 1998. Some view the pickle festival as a form of social expression, and the "current artisan pickling scene" has been compared to the mentality of early microbreweries. The pickle festival was originally started by Eri Yamaguchi and Bill Brooks, as a way to introduce Ulster County to pickled Japanese food, such as oshinko. The festival has featured Japanese traditional dancing. At the first pickle festival the number of people attending was 1,000, a number five times greater than expected. The following year it was double that, and by 2003, attendance was almost 5,000. Rosendale also holds a recurring winter festival known as "Frozendale", and in late September 2010, the hamlet had a zombie-themed festival. Rosendale has also held two Mermaid Parades in recent years the first in 2015 and the second in 2016. Historically, Rosendale's festivals have "draw[n as many as] 30,000 people". Rosendale Village has a total area of , of which is land and is water. The former village is located at the center of the town of Rosendale, and is "situated on the [former Delaware and Hudson] canal and Rondout Creek", about north of the creek's confluence with the Wallkill River. The highest recorded crest of the Rondout Creek in Rosendale was on October 16, 1955. The creek does not normally rise above , but overflows its banks after reaching . The hamlet's ZIP code is 12472 and it is in area code 845. Rosendale Village is bordered by the creek and by the Joppenbergh Mountain. It is traversed by state routes NY 32 and NY 213. The former village is east of the hamlet of High Falls, north of the village of New Paltz, and south of the city of Kingston. Rosendale is underlain by a shale member of the Martinburg Formation called Martinburg shale, deposited as early as 500 million years ago; Martinburg shale also lines the bottom of the Rondout Creek as it flows through the town.