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Today a thriving business community, the New Windsor hamlet of Vails Gate was once a sleepy little intersection where the early private turnpike roads crossed. Named after the gate tended by one of the toll-keepers, postmaster John D. Vail, Vails Gate retains remnants of the 19th-century community, particularly on State Route 94—locally the Blooming Grove Turnpike—which runs from New Windsor all the way to Newton, New Jersey.
Some of the oldest surviving structures on Route 94 are the 1807 Vails Gate United Methodist Church and the 1755 Georgian house of the Ellison family, the site of Knox's Headquarters State Historic Site, used by Henry Knox towards the end of the Revolutionary War and by other generals before that. On the same property is the Jane Colden Memorial Garden, created by volunteers of the Orange and Dutchess County garden clubs using native species Colden described in her book, Flora of New York.
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Vails Gate is close to Newburgh, so if you need to put guests up somewhere, there’s lots of lodging to choose from. Some of the big ones are Howard Johnson, Homewood Suites & Ramada!
Get over to Kowawese Unique Area at Plum Point, where you can put in your canoe, fish, hike & check out Revolutionary War cannon batteries & a dramatic view of the Hudson River gorge!
New York Performing Arts Center offers a professional, artistic approach to training! Riverside Theater Arts Academy is about high-quality programming to inspire young artists!
Horseshoe Farms unloads & stacks your hay & straw! Among other surprises you’ll find outdoor kitchen kits at Devitt’s! Stonegate Farm is a model of bio-intensive organic farming!
Tropical Bowl at Blend! Baby Spinach Salad with Edgwick Farm Goat Cheese & Caramelized Butternut Squash at Canterbury Inn! Big Bowl of Pasta with Broccoli Rabe at Ms. Fairfax!
From cutting-edge cuts to formal dos, Overtones Salon has you covered! Ten years’ experience means Exhale Skin Bar knows where it’s at! Find hot yoga & teen classes at Skye River Yoga!
Brid's Closet is the place for incense, tarot, candles, books, jewelry, bath & body products, oils, classes, resins, herbs, sage sticks, crystals, dream catchers & monthly events!
At the Jane Colden Memorial Garden at Knox’s Headquarters State Historic Site, volunteers only plant native species Colden described in her 18th-century book, Flora of New York!
There's so much to do in Vails Gate, NY - it can be hard to decide! Contact one of our Local Experts at Village Green Realty. We'd love to give you our recommendation on the best things to do in Vails Gate.
Also built on the Blooming Grove Turnpike in 1755 was what’s known as the Edmonston House, remarkably beautiful and looking as though it might have been built by the same man, William Bull of Hamptonburgh, NY, who did the Ellison’s place. Another Revolutionary War headquarters, Edmonston House is now a museum and home of the local historic society. Reenactments, 18th-century crafts demos, all kinds of historical presentations take place at Edmonston House, indoors and out. The historic significance of the Vails Gate area is further enhanced by the New Windsor Cantonment, commemorating the winter home of the U.S. Continental Army from the end of 1782 through April 1783, the Continental Army’s final encampment before the cease-fire was declared.
Vails Gate NY is still a densely populated hamlet, but there are local parks and the Stewart State Forest when you want to get away from it all. As New Windsor is right on the Hudson River, the Kowawese Unique Area, a 102-acre park with almost a mile of sandy river beach, was created to give the public access to the banks of the river at Plum Point. Boating, picnicking, hiking, nature study and fishing all go on happily at Plum Point, and there’s a Visitor Center available for rental April through November. Don’t have your own boat? River Rose Cruises depart from Newburgh, just north of Vails Gate.
There are seven large ponds (and lots of smaller ones) at Stewart State Forest, which boasts 22 miles of major trails on its 6,700 acres and lots of wildlife in its forest, wetlands and fields, including bobcats, grebes, deer and heron, woodcock and warblers. Schunnemunk State Park lies to the southwest of Vails Gate, 3,300 acres of meadows, glades and mountaintops with 360-degree Hudson River and Hudson Highlands views.
With the river, the mountains and the proximity to NYC, Vails Gate is a wonderful spot for a lot of reasons!
If condo living is your idea of easy street, there’s a 1,000-square-foot Vails Gate condo for sale with one bedroom and one bath, a huge kitchen and a nice big swimming pool and cabana surrounded by trees on a .21-acre lot of Vails Gate real estate. Rather have a Vails Gate detached home? Then don’t miss the three-bedroom, 2.5-bath 1964 executive ranch with a formal dining room and 400+-square-foot heated sunroom overlooking the backyard pool on almost a half-acre of Vails Gate real estate. Another kind of Vails Gate property is a raised ranch with new kitchen and appliances, updated bathrooms and refinished hardwood floors; outside is a new roof, siding, windows, garage doors and rear deck on .18 Vails Gate acres.
Whatever type of Vails Gate property you’re interested in, a Coldwell Banker Village Green Realty agent is the one to talk to for the most professional and productive service in the business!
If you have any questions about Vails Gate NY real estate, feel free to contact Coldwell Banker Village Green Realty. We'd love to show you all that Vails Gate has to offer.
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Listing information last updated on April 27th, 2024 at 8:40am EDT.
Listing information last updated on April 27th, 2024 at 8:35am EDT.
