Gales Ferry is a census-designated place[2] and village in the town of Ledyard, Connecticut, United States.

Several farmsteads that are individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places are located close to Gales Ferry.

The village is named for the ferry operated by Roger Gale at the current site of a Yale University crew training camp.

The community has several neighborhoods, including The Village, Birdland, Christy Hills, Sherwood Forest, Glenwoods, and Presidential Estates.

The oldest structure on the site is the front portion of the varsity house which was originally constructed in the late eighteenth century as a private home and which has since been considerably expanded by multiple additions.

The boathouse was designed by James Gamble Rogers, who was also responsible for much of the Gothic Revival architecture at Yale's New Haven campus.

The boathouse adjoining the dock serves as a center of activity when the camp is occupied and provides storage and repair space for the boats.

The ferry is of considerable historical interest since Yale's crew is the oldest college athletic team in America.

It includes work designed by Stephen Gray and examples of Greek Revival, Italianate, and Federal architecture.

[7] It is an irregularly shaped area, with boundaries drawn to include historic Colonial, Federal and other architecture, and to exclude more modern intrusions.