Old Forge
Old Forge is a village of about 750 people in the Adirondacks. As one of the western gateway communities of the Adirondack Park, Old Forge forms an extensive business district, primarily directed at tourism especially during the summer months.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Anne LaBastille, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 727 residents
- Description: human settlement in New York, United States of America
- Also known as: “Old Forge, New York”, “Old Forge, NY”, and “Oldforge”
- Postal code: 13420
Places of Interest
Highlights include Old Forge Airport and Enchanted Forest Water Safari.
Old Forge Airport
Aerodrome
Old Forge Airport is a private use airport located one nautical mile north of the central business district of Old Forge, a village in Herkimer County, New York, United States.
Enchanted Forest Water Safari
Water park
Photo: Arsenalforthewin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Enchanted Forest — Water Safari is an amusement park/water park. It is the largest water park in New York, United States, and is located within Old Forge, in the Adirondack region.
Thendara station
Railway station
Thendara station is the Adirondack Scenic Railroad's longest-duration northern terminus, and is near Thendara, New York. It is served by trains heading south to Utica beginning around the month of May each year.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thendara.
Thendara
Hamlet
Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thendara is a hamlet and census-designated place in Herkimer County, New York, United States. Thendara is located in the Adirondack Park, in the southern part of the town of Webb, west of Old Forge on Route 28. Thendara station is a station on the Adirondack Railroad; it was formerly the northern terminus of most northbound trains from Utica, which was extended to Tupper Lake in late spring, 2023.
Old Forge
Latitude
43.7099° or 43° 42′ 36″ northLongitude
-74.9744° or 74° 58′ 28″ westPopulation
727Elevation
1,736 feet (529 metres)Open location code
87M7P25G+X6OpenStreetMap ID
node 158808482OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
5129698Wikidata ID
Q7084012
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Old Forge” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Old Forge”
- Chechen: “Олд-Фордж”
- Chinese: “舊福奇 (紐約州)”
- Chinese: “舊福奇”
- French: “Old Forge”
- German: “Old Forge”
- Gilaki: “اؤلد فؤرج (نيۊیؤرک)”
- Gilaki: “اؤلد فؤرج”
- Irish: “Old Forge, Nua-Eabhrac”
- Irish: “Old Forge”
- Italian: “Old Forge”
- Ladin: “Old Forge”
- Persian: “اولد فورج، نیویورک”
- Persian: “اولد فورج”
- Polish: “Old Forge”
- Serbian: “Олд Фоџ”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Old Forge, New York”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Old Forge”
- South Azerbaijani: “اولد فورج، نیویورک”
- Spanish: “Old Forge”
- Tatar: “Олд-Фордж”
- Ukrainian: “Олд-Фордж”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Old Forge”. Photo: Anne LaBastille, Public domain.