Au Sable Forks Leads the Way as Rural “Hotspot”

Au Sable Forks leads the way as rural “hotspot”

Town leaders hope WiFi plus a new visitors' center and EV chargers will result in more tourists stopping as they pass through. Click here for the Adirondack Explorer story

Au Sable Forks leads the way as rural hotspot

The town of Jay in the eastern Adirondacks is becoming a hot spot, in more ways than one. After years of unsuccessfully trying to convince carriers that the hamlet of Au Sable Forks and much of the Ausable River Valley is a communications dead zone, the town, in conjunction with the Essex County IT department and the Lake Champlain Regional Planning Board, has worked out a hack that basically turns the town’s three hamlets into wifi hotspots. “I…