Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Vails Gate is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in Orange County, New York, United States. The population was 3,319 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Poughkeepsie Newburgh Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York Newark Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area. Vails Gate is in the south part of the Town of New Windsor, located on Route 32. It is defined largely by the junction of that highway with Routes 94 and 300, a busy commercial center which has the ZIP code 12584. Part of that also spills into adjacent regions of the Town of Cornwall to the south.