Lake George
Nestled in the pristine Adirondacks, Lake George is a year-round tourist destination. It is 45 minutes outside of Saratoga Springs and 1 hour north of Albany, and is worth the effort it takes to get there.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: brauksieck taylor, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Town with 3,460 residents
- Description: town in Warren County, New York, United States
- Also known as: “Lake George, New York”, “Lake George, NY”, “Town of Caldwell”, and “Town of Lake George”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort William Henry and United States Post Office.
Fort William Henry
Museum
Photo: IrisKawling, Public domain.
Fort William Henry was a British fort at the southern end of Lake George, in the province of New York. The fort's construction was ordered by Sir William Johnson in September 1755, during the French and Indian War, as a staging ground for attacks against the French position at Fort St.
United States Post Office
Post office
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The U.S. Post Office in Lake George, New York, United States, is located at the corner of Canada Street and Kurosaka Lane. It is a small brick building constructed just before World War II.
Prospect Mountain
Peak
Prospect Mountain is a mountain located in the town of Lake George in Warren County, New York. New York State Route 917A, an unsigned reference route also known as Prospect Mountain Veterans Memorial Highway, is a toll road maintained by the New York State…
Lake George
- Categories: town in the United States, town of New York, and locality
- Location: Warren, Adirondacks, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.426° or 43° 25′ 34″ northLongitude
-73.7124° or 73° 42′ 45″ westPopulation
3,460Elevation
571 feet (174 metres)Open location code
87M8C7GQ+92OpenStreetMap ID
node 158875629OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
5123794Wikidata ID
Q2624801
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Satellite Map
Discover Lake George from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Lake George” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ليك جورج”
- Basque: “Lake George”
- Belarusian: “Лейк-Джордж”
- Cebuano: “Lake George”
- Chechen: “Лейк-Джордж”
- Chinese: “乔治湖（镇）”
- Chinese: “喬治湖 (紐約州城市)”
- Chinese: “喬治湖（鎮）”
- Chinese: “喬治湖鎮”
- Chinese: “萊克喬治”
- Dutch: “Lake George”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ليك جورج”
- Esperanto: “Lago Georgo”
- French: “Lake George”
- German: “Lake George”
- Haitian: “Lake George, New York”
- Haitian: “Lake George”
- Hebrew: “לייק ג’ורג‘”
- Italian: “Lake George”
- Japanese: “レイクジョージ”
- Korean: “레이크 조지”
- Korean: “레이크조지”
- Macedonian: “Лејк Џорџ”
- Mazanderani: “لیک جورج تاؤن (نیویورک)”
- Mazanderani: “لیک جورج تاؤن”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lake George”
- Polish: “Lake George”
- Russian: “Лейк-Джордж”
- Serbian: “Лејк Џорџ”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lake George, New York”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lake George”
- Spanish: “Lake George”
- Swedish: “Lake George”
- Tatar: “Лейк-Джордж”
- Turkish: “Lake George”
- Ukrainian: “Лейк-Джордж”
- Urdu: “لیک جارج، نیو یارک”
- Uzbek: “Lake George, New York”
- Uzbek: “Lake George”
- Uzbek: “Лаке Георге”
- Welsh: “Lake George, Efrog Newydd”
- Welsh: “Lake George”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Lake George”. Photo: brauksieck taylor, CC BY 2.0.