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Attractions near Lake Placid

Herb Brooks Arena and one more place to visit in Lake Placid

Visitors to Lake Placid can choose from 3 museums, 2 stadiums & arenas and 2 lakes. Mapped inside Lake Placid are 2 places to visit, and within 40 miles another 14. Further afield lies Fort Ticonderoga, at 43 mi.

Attractions nearby
28
within 60 miles
The big one
12 mi
Mount Marcy
Ski areas
7
Whiteface Mountain Ski Center
Big draws
2
100K+ Wikipedia readers a year
Mountain · 12 mi south

Mount Marcy

Mountain in United States of America.

The towns around it, and where to stay →

The map

Where to go

The farthest of them, Shelburne Museum, is 38 mi out.

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Orange: Lake Placid. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors

Everything nearby

Every one of them

In town there are 2, and the list adds 26 more within 60 miles.

Adirondack Park

State park · 26 mi southwest · read 59K times a year on Wikipedia

Protected area encompassing much of the northeastern lobe of New York, United States largest park in the contiguous United States largest National Historic Landmark.

Towns near it → · Wikipedia

The places inside Lake Placid lead. The rest are ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places come first and the local favorites follow.

Parks and trails in Lake Placid → · Lake Placid’s history →

Sources: National Park Service · ski areas © OpenSkiMap / OpenStreetMap contributors · Wikidata · Wikipedia readership · photos via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credits

Herb Brooks Arena: KevinTR at English Wikipedia, CC0 · Lake Placid Winter Olympic Museum: Vinckie, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Lake Champlain: Copernicus Sentinel-2, ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo · Fort Ticonderoga: Mwanner, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Mount Marcy: Daniel Tripp, Public domain · Lake George: Sixlocal, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Adirondack Park: Original uploader was Mwanner at en.wikipedia Later version(s) were uploaded by, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Whiteface Mountain: Mwanner, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Lake Tear of the Clouds: TheKilimanjaro, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Sugarbush Resort: Mrtrek1701 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Ausable Chasm: Alan Prusila / Alanp35 at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Shelburne Museum: Storylanding, CC0 · John Brown Farm State Historic Site: Mwanner | Talk, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Fort Montgomery: Mfwills, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Green Mountain National Forest: Brian W. Schaller, FAL · Mad River Glen: Jrclark (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Gore Mountain: MJPlante1, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Fort Carillon: Charny, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Fort Crown Point: Daniel M. Horowitz, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Bolton Valley Resort: Gopats92, Public domain · Santa's Workshop: Mwanner, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Adirondack Museum: Mwanner, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Lake Placid Equestrian Stadium: Aaron danielg at English Wikipedia, Public domain

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