Lake Placid

The body of water named Lake Placid is located in the Adirondack Mountains in northern New York, United States. It is located on the northern side of the Village of Lake Placid.

Photo: Bala Subs, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mirror Lake and Lake Placid Winter Olympic Museum.

Mirror Lake

Lake

The oligotrophic, circumneutral body of water called Mirror Lake is in the Adirondack Mountains in northern New York in the United States. The lake is approximately 124 acres, with a watershed area of 741 acres.

Lake Placid Winter Olympic Museum

Museum

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The Lake Placid Olympic Museum commemorates the 1932 Winter Olympics and 1980 Winter Olympics, which were based in the Olympic village of Lake Placid. It is one of few Olympic museums in the United States and is a part of the work of New York State Olympic Regional Development Authority in the Lake Placid Olympic Region. Lake Placid Winter Olympic Museum is situated 1½ miles south of Lake Placid.

Herb Brooks Arena

Ice rink

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Herb Brooks Arena is a multi-purpose arena at the Olympic Center in Lake Placid, New York. The arena, along with the USA Rink, was built for the 1980 Winter Olympics. Herb Brooks Arena is situated 2 miles south of Lake Placid.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lake Placid and Ray Brook.

Lake Placid

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Lake Placid is a village of 2,400 people in the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County, New York, near the center of the town of North Elba and named after an adjacent lake.

Ray Brook

Hamlet

Ray Brook is a hamlet in the U.S. state of New York, located on NY 86 between Saranac Lake and Lake Placid in the Town of North Elba in Essex County. The ZIP Code for Ray Brook is 12977. Ray Brook is situated 5 miles west of Lake Placid.

Lake Placid

Type: Reservoir
Description: lake in the United States of America
Categories: lake and body of water
Location: Essex, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

44.30822° or 44° 18′ 30″ north

Longitude

-73.97335° or 73° 58′ 24″ west

Elevation

1,857 feet (566 metres)

Open location code

87P8825G+7M

GeoNames ID

5123832

Wikidata ID

Q1801051

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Lake Placid” goes by many names.

Basque: “Lake Placid”
Chinese: “普莱西德湖”
Chinese: “普萊西德湖”
Czech: “Lake Placid”
Dutch: “Lake Placid”
Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره پلاسيد”
Egyptian Arabic: “ليك پلاسيد”
French: “lac Placid”
French: “Lac Placid”
German: “Lake Placid (See in New York)”
German: “Lake Placid”
Greek: “Λίμνη Πλάσιντ”
Italian: “Lake Placid”
Japanese: “プラシッド湖”
Norwegian Bokmål: “Lake Placid (innsjø)”
Norwegian: “Lake Placid”
Polish: “Lake Placid”
Romanian: “Lake Placid”
Venetian: “Lake Placid”
Welsh: “Llyn Placid”

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