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Lake Placid Olympic Center
The ice arenas from the 1932 and 1980 Olympics on Main Street, site of the Miracle on Ice, with Lake Placid’s Olympic museum and the outdoor speed-skating oval out front.
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Lake Placid
In the destination Lake Placid and the Adirondacks.
In the photo: Lake Placid among the mountains
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The city
What to expect from Lake Placid.
A village in the Adirondack Mountains on the shore of Mirror Lake, host of the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics. Main Street has shops, restaurants and the Olympic Center, with the arena of the Miracle on Ice and the Olympic museum. Nearby are the ski jumping ramps, the bobsled tracks at Mt. Van Hoevenberg and Whiteface, with a road nearly to the summit and a ski area. Trails climb into the High Peaks.
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The local experience
What to see in Lake Placid
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Lake Placid Olympic Ski Jumping Complex
The ski jump towers from the 1980 Olympics, with landing hills around 100 and 128 meters, where a gondola and a glass elevator take visitors to the top of the larger tower for views of the High Peaks.
Mountain
Whiteface Mountain
1,483‑meter mountain, the fifth‑highest in the Adirondacks, with an 8‑km scenic road that ends at a stone castle and an elevator carved into the rock up to the summit. On the other slope is the 1980 Olympic ski area.
Lake
Mirror Lake
Small lake on the edge of downtown Lake Placid, with no motorboats, a roughly 4‑km path around it, a public beach in summer and, in winter, public skating and an ice toboggan that slides across the frozen lake.
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Sports complex
Mount Van Hoevenberg
Olympic sliding- and cross-country-ski sports complex, with the 1932 and 1980 bobsled tracks, winter bobsled rides with pilots and an alpine coaster that runs beside the tracks.