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
Photo: Vinckie, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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
Herb Brooks Arena is a multi-purpose arena in Lake Placid, New York. This surface, 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
Photo: Atilin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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. It is the site of the Adirondack Park Agency, the District 5 office of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the Federal Correctional Institution, Ray Brook and the Adirondack Correctional Facility. 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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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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