Jay (New York)

Jay is a town of 2,500 people in the Adirondacks of New York.

Understand
Jay (formerly "Mallory's Bush" or "Lower Jay") is a hamlet on NYS Route 9N along the East Branch of the Ausable River.

The adjacent "Upper Jay" was the site of the "Land of Makebelieve" amusement park (1954-1979), which closed after repeated flooding; some of the fairy tale houses from the park were moved to Storytown (now the Six Flags Great Escape) in Queensbury (south of Lake George).

Get in
From Wilmington (New York), take NY 86 five miles (8km) east.

See

 * Jay is the "Home of the Covered Bridge". An 1857 covered bridge, rebuilt and reopened as a footbridge in 2007, is below the village green near the rapids.

Do

 * There is a swimming area near the bridge and the village green.
 * - located in Queensbury