page_title: Albany County, New York
section_title: Amusement
hierarchical_section_title: Albany County, New York / Cityscape / Amusement
caption_attribution_description: English: Albany, New York, United States at nighttime
context_page_description: Albany County is a county in the state of New York, in the United States. Its northern border is formed by the Mohawk River, at its confluence with the Hudson River, which is on the east. As of the 2010 census, the population was 304,204. The county seat and largest city is Albany, the state capital of New York. As originally established by the English government in the colonial era, Albany County had an indefinite amount of land, but has had an area of 530 square miles since March 3, 1888. The county is named for the Duke of York and of Albany, who became James II of England.
  Albany County constitutes the central core of the Capital District of New York State, which comprises the Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area.
context_section_description: Albany County has two shopping malls classified as super-regional malls (malls with over 800,000 sq ft), Crossgates Mall in Guilderland and Colonie Center in Colonie with over one million square feet of rentable space in each. Huck Finn's Playland is in Albany's Warehouse District just north of downtown Albany. Huck Finn's Playland is a children's amusement park open during the summer.  Huck Finn's started operations in the Summer of 2015, after purchasing the rides from the former Hoffman's Playland in Newtonville, which was in operation from 1951 to the Fall of 2014.  During the winter there are over 18 miles (29 km) of official trails for snowshoeing at the Albany Pine Bush Preserve, in the city of Albany and towns of Colonie and Guilderland.
caption: Albany, the county's seat and largest city
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