Rainbow Lake
Rainbow Lake is a hamlet in Franklin County, New York, United States. The community is 9.7 miles north of Saranac Lake. Rainbow Lake has a post office with ZIP code 12976, which opened on July 8, 1884.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: hamlet in New York, United States
- Also known as: “Rainbow Lake, New York”
- Postal code: 12976
Places of Interest
Highlights include Camp Gabriels and Meenahga Mountain.
Camp Gabriels
Protected area
Camp Gabriels was a minimum security state prison, located in northern New York. This prison was located in the village of Gabriels in the Town of Brighton in Franklin County. Camp Gabriels is situated 2 miles south of Rainbow Lake.
Meenahga Mountain
Peak
Meenahga Mountain is a 2,087-foot-tall mountain located in Adirondack Mountains of New York. It is located in the northeast of the hamlet of Paul Smiths in Franklin County. The mountain is the site of a 73-foot-tall Aermotor LS40 fire lookout tower. Meenahga Mountain is situated 2 miles northeast of Rainbow Lake.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gabriels and Paul Smiths.
Gabriels
Hamlet
Gabriels is a hamlet in the town of Brighton in Franklin County, New York, United States, inside the Adirondack Park near Paul Smiths. The village developed around a tuberculosis cure facility, the Gabriels Sanatorium, which was opened in 1897 by the Catholic Sisters of Mercy. Gabriels is situated 2½ miles south of Rainbow Lake.
Paul Smiths
Hamlet
Photo: Mwanner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Paul Smiths is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Brighton in Franklin County, New York, United States. It is located on Lower Saint Regis Lake in the Adirondacks, 12 miles northwest of Saranac Lake, located at 44°26' North 74°15' West. Paul Smiths is situated 4½ miles southwest of Rainbow Lake.
Harrietstown
Hamlet
Photo: Mwanner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Harrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The total population was 5,254 at the 2020 census, In 2010 3,879 of the town's residents lived in the village of Saranac Lake on the eastern side of the town. Harrietstown is situated 5 miles south of Rainbow Lake.
Rainbow Lake
- Categories: hamlet of New York and locality
- Location: Brighton, Franklin, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
44.467° or 44° 28′ 1″ northLongitude
-74.17293° or 74° 10′ 23″ westElevation
1,690 feet (515 metres)Open location code
87P7FR8G+QROpenStreetMap ID
node 158817316OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Chinese—“Rainbow Lake” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة رينبو”
- Chinese: “雷恩博萊克 (紐約州)”
- Chinese: “雷恩博萊克”
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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 “Rainbow Lake”. Photo: Jeffrey Johnson, CC BY-SA 2.0.