Mirror Lake

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

Highlights include Lake Placid Winter Olympic Museum and Herb Brooks Arena.

Museum
The Lake Placid Olympic Museum commemorates the 1932 Winter Olympics and 1980 Winter Olympics, which were based in the Olympic village of . 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.

Ice rink
Photo: KevinTR, CC0.
is a multi-purpose arena in . This surface, along with the USA Rink, was built for the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Railway station
The is a former railroad station, built by the Delaware and Hudson Railway in , . In the post-World War II period, the NYC's North Star train, and later, the Iroquois, provided direct sleeping car service from New York City's to Lake Placid.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lake Placid and Ray Brook.

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

Hamlet
is a hamlet in the U.S. state of , located on NY 86 between and in the in . It is the site of the Adirondack Park Agency, the District 5 office of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the and the . is situated 5 miles west of Mirror Lake.

Mirror Lake

Latitude
44.29042° or 44° 17′ 26″ north
Longitude
-73.97961° or 73° 58′ 47″ west
Elevation
1,857 feet (566 metres)
Open location code
87P872RC+55
Open­Street­Map ID
way 108641380
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Open­Street­Map feature
water=­lake
Geo­Names ID
5127183
Wiki­data ID
Q7373226
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to German—“Mirror Lake” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: بحيرة ميرور (نيويورك)
  • Arabic: بحيرة ميرور
  • Bengali: মিরর হ্রদ
  • Cebuano: Mirror Lake (lanaw sa Estados Unidos, New York, Essex County)
  • Cebuano: Mirror Lake
  • German: Mirror Lake

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Mirror Lake Boat Rental & GE Cruisers and The Curious Otter.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mirror Lake”. Photo: Jeffrey Johnson, CC BY-SA 2.0.