The Giants' training camp travel history

The Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia where the Giants will hold the first stages of their training camp this summer with practices starting on Wednesday, is quite a hike from the team’s headquarters in East Rutherford, New Jersey. It’s about 468 miles away, actually.

But that’s not even the farthest the Giants have ever gone for the annual summer rituals of preparing for the upcoming season. While most of their camps have been in the extended New York City area – that includes upstate at the University of Albany and at the Bear Mountain Inn, various sites in suburban New Jersey and Connecticut, and even two years on Long Island at C.W. Post College in 1970 and 1971 – they have also traveled as far away as Vermont, Ohio, Minnesota and Oregon!

Those trips to the Pacific Northwest took place in 1954, 1955 and 1958, so it’s not as if they were ever traveling on comfy jumbo jets. Those first two were the first two seasons Jim Lee Howell coached the team, taking over from Steve Owen, and the Giants went a combined 13-10-1. In 1958, though, the Giants went 9-3 and lost to the Colts in “The Greatest Game Ever Played.” Add that to the list of ways that NFL title game altered the course of the league. Had the Giants won the championship they might have returned to Oregon the following year to try to replicate their success. Instead, thanks to Alan Ameche’s overtime touchdown plunge, they never returned there again.

Here is a look at where the Giants have held most of their training camp throughout their history, from the inaugural one right in New York City in 1925 to their first real getaway camp in Pennsylvania in 1926 right up to this one in the mountains of West Virginia:

1925: New York City

1926: The Hotel Lake Ariel, Lake Ariel, Penn.

1927-28: New York City

1929: Asbury Park, NJ

1930-31: New York City

1932: Magnetic Springs, Ohio

1933-34: Pompton Lakes, NJ

1935-38: Blue Hills Country Club, Pearl River, NY

1939, 1941-24, 1946-48: UW Superior, Superior, Wisc.

1940: Blue Hills Country Club, Pearl River, NY

1943-45: Bear Mountain Inn, Bear Mountain, NY

1949-51: Saranac High School, Saranac Lake, NY

1952-53: Gustavus-Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minn.

1954-55, 1958: Willamette University, Salem, Oregon

1956-57, 1959-60: St Michael’s College, Winooski, Vermont

1961-69, 1974: Fairfield University, Fairfield, Conn.

1970-71: C.W. Post College, Brookville, NY

1972-73: Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ

1975-87: Pace University, Pleasantville, NY

1988-95: Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ

1996-2010, 2012: University at Albany, Albany, NY

2011, 2013-25: Quest Diagnostics Training Center, East Rutherford, NJ

2026: The Greenbrier Resort, White Sulpher Springs, WV

By Tom Rock

tom.rock@newsday.com@TomRock_Newsday

Tom Rock began covering sports for Newsday in 1996 and became its NFL columnist in 2022. He previously was Newsday's Giants beat writer beginning in 2008.