Ray Brook
Ray Brook is a hamlet in the U.S. state of New York, located on NY 86 between Saranac Lake and Lake Placid in the Town of North Elba in Essex County. It is the site of the Adirondack Park Agency, the District 5 office of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the Federal Correctional Institution, Ray Brook and the Adirondack Correctional Facility.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: hamlet in Essex County, New York, United States
- Also known as: “Ray Brook, New York” and “Ray Brook, NY”
- Postal code: 12977
Places of Interest
Highlights include Federal Correctional Institution, Ray Brook and Adirondack Correctional Facility.
Federal Correctional Institution, Ray Brook
Prison
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Federal Correctional Institution, Ray Brook, unofficially called the Olympic Prison, is a medium-security United States federal prison for male inmates that is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice.
Adirondack Correctional Facility
Prison
The Adirondack Correctional Facility is a medium-security prison in Ray Brook, New York in the Adirondack Mountains between Saranac Lake and Lake Placid; it detains up to 566 people.
Scarface Mountain
Peak
Scarface Mountain is a mountain summit located in the Adirondack Mountains, in the U.S. state of New York. It is located in the town of North Elba. Scarface Mountain is situated 2½ miles south of Ray Brook.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saranac Lake and Lake Placid.
Saranac Lake
Photo: heipei, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Saranac Lake is a village in the Adirondacks in New York state. It lies in the towns of Harrietstown, St. Armand, and North Elba, inside the boundaries of Adirondack State Park.
Lake Placid
Photo: Atilin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lake Placid is a village of 2,400 people in the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County, New York, near the center of the town of North Elba and named after an adjacent lake.
Ray Brook
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Town of North Elba, Essex, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
44.29861° or 44° 17′ 55″ northLongitude
-74.07549° or 74° 4′ 32″ westElevation
1,591 feet (485 metres)Open location code
87P77WXF+CROpenStreetMap ID
node 158811214OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
“Ray Brook” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “雷布魯克 (紐約州)”
- Chinese: “雷布魯克”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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