Vails Gate is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in Orange County, New York, United States.

Vails Gate is in the southern 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.

Efforts to change the name of the hamlet to Mortonville, after the Morton family, residents of the Ellison House, never occurred.

[3] According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1.0 square mile (2.6 km2), all land.