What you’re stepping into .
A 700-acre YMCA conference center and family retreat on Lake George — 120 years old and on the National Register.
Silver Bay YMCA Conference & Family Retreat Center occupies 700 acres with a full mile of Lake George shoreline on the lake's northwest shore, between Hague and Bolton Landing. Founded in 1904, the property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has been continuously operated as a YMCA retreat and conference center for more than 120 years.
Accommodation spans the full range: economic dormitory-style rooms, hotel-standard guest rooms, family cottages, and large multi-bedroom guest houses, totaling 253 rooms across the campus. The mix of room types makes Silver Bay equally well-suited to budget church-group retreats, multi-family reunions, and corporate off-sites.
Meeting and event spaces scale from intimate enclosed pavilions and historic halls up to a 700-person auditorium, with the William Boyd Center's Luther Wishard conference room seating over 300. Fifteen miles of on-site hiking trails wind through the property, and the lakefront supports swimming, paddling, and small-boat sailing.
Best for: church and community group retreats, family-camp summer stays, conferences and corporate off-sites, and multi-generational family vacations.
The setting .
Silver Bay · Paradox Lake · 36 mi from Tops Friendly Markets.
Within a short drive .
The essentials .
- § Nearest villageSilver Bay
- § Nearest grocerynone nearby
- § Nearest gasnone nearby
- § Nearest hospitalElizabethtown Community Hospital36.2 mi
What’s closest .
- Sunrise Mountain0.6 mi away
- Number One Hundred and Eight Mountain1.3 mi away
- Middle Mountain2.7 mi away
- Lost Pond0.6 mi away
- Rookery Pond1.3 mi away
- Little Jabe Pond2.0 mi away
- Link Road3.4 mi away
- Spur 4 W D3.7 mi away
- Fly Brook Road Section 33.9 mi away
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