Adirondacks
Essex
Town of North Elba

Lake Placid

Lake Placid 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.
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  • Type: Town with 2,210 residents
  • Description: village in Essex County, New York, United States
  • Also known as: “Lake Placid, New York” and “Lake Placid, NY”
  • Postal code: 12946

Places of Interest

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

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

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

Lake Placid

Latitude
44.2831° or 44° 16′ 59″ north
Longitude
-73.9828° or 73° 58′ 58″ west
Population
2,210
Elevation
1,801 feet (549 metres)
IATA airport code
LKP
United Nations Location Code
US LKP
Open location code
87P872M8+6V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158810726
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5123831
Wiki­data ID
Q192700
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Lake Placid” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Lake Placid”
  • Arabic: “لايك بلاسيد، نيويورك”
  • Arabic: “ليك بلاسيد”
  • Aragonese: “Lake Placid”
  • Armenian: “Լեյք Փլեսիդ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Leyk-Plesid”
  • Balinese: “Lake Placid, New York”
  • Balinese: “Lake Placid”
  • Bashkir: “Лейк-Плэсид”
  • Basque: “Lake Placid”
  • Basque: “Lake Placide”
  • Belarusian: “Вёска Лейк-Плэсід”
  • Belarusian: “Лейк-Плэсід”
  • Belarusian: “Лэйк-Плэсід”
  • Bengali: “লেক প্লাসিড, নিউ ইয়র্ক”
  • Bengali: “লেক প্লাসিড”
  • Bulgarian: “Лейк Плейсид”
  • Bulgarian: “Лейк Плесид”
  • Catalan: “Lake Placid”
  • Cebuano: “Lake Placid”
  • Chinese: “Lake Placid”
  • Chinese: “寧靜湖”
  • Chinese: “普莱西德湖村”
  • Chinese: “普萊西德湖”
  • Chinese: “普萊西德湖村”
  • Chinese: “靜湖”
  • Czech: “Lake Placid”
  • Dagbani: “Lake Placid”
  • Danish: “Lake Placid”
  • Dutch: “Lake Placid”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لايك بلاسيد”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ليك پلاسيد”
  • Esperanto: “Lake Placid”
  • Estonian: “Lake Placid”
  • Finnish: “Lake Placid, New York”
  • Finnish: “Lake Placid”
  • French: “Lake Placid”
  • Galician: “Lake Placid, Nova York”
  • Galician: “Lake Placid, NY”
  • Galician: “Lake Placid”
  • German: “Lake Placid”
  • Gilaki: “لیک پلاسید (نيۊیؤرک)”
  • Gilaki: “لیک پلاسید”
  • Greek: “Λέικ Πλάσιντ”
  • Haitian: “Lake Placid, New York”
  • Haitian: “Lake Placid”
  • Hebrew: “לייק פלאסיד”
  • Hungarian: “Lake Placid”
  • Irish: “Lake Placid, Nua-Eabhrac”
  • Irish: “Lake Placid”
  • Italian: “Lake Placid, New York”
  • Italian: “Lake Placid”
  • Japanese: “レークプラシッド (ニューヨーク州)”
  • Japanese: “レークプラシッド”
  • Korean: “레이크플래시드”
  • Ladin: “Lake Placid”
  • Latvian: “Leikplesida”
  • Lithuanian: “Leik Plesidas”
  • Malagasy: “Lake Placid, New York”
  • Malagasy: “Lake Placid”
  • Malay: “Lake Placid, New York”
  • Malay: “Lake Placid”
  • Marathi: “लेक प्लॅसिड”
  • Mazanderani: “لیک پلاسید (نیویورک)”
  • Mazanderani: “لیک پلاسید”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lake Placid”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lake Placid, New York”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lake Placid”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lake Placid i New York”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lake Placid, New York”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lake Placid”
  • Norwegian: “Lake Placid”
  • Ossetian: “Лейк-Плэсид”
  • Persian: “لیک پلاسید، نیویورک”
  • Persian: “لیک پلاسید”
  • Picard: “Lake Placid”
  • Polish: “Lake Placid”
  • Portuguese: “Lake Placid”
  • Romanian: “Lake Placid, New York”
  • Romanian: “Lake Placid”
  • Russian: “Лейк-Плейсид”
  • Russian: “Лейк-Плесид”
  • Russian: “Лейк-Плэсид”
  • Russian: “Лэйк-Плэсид”
  • Scots: “Lake Placid”
  • Serbian: “Lejk Plesid”
  • Serbian: “Лејк Плесид”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lake Placid, New York”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lake Placid”
  • Silesian: “Lake Placid”
  • Slovak: “Lake Placid”
  • Slovenian: “Lake Placid”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لئیک پلاسید، نیویورک”
  • Spanish: “Lake Placid (Nueva York)”
  • Spanish: “Lake Placid”
  • Swedish: “Lake Placid, New York”
  • Swedish: “Lake Placid”
  • Tajik: “Лейк-Плэсид”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Lake Placid, New York”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Lake Placid”
  • Turkish: “Lake Placid, New York”
  • Turkish: “Lake Placid”
  • Ukrainian: “Лейк-Плесід”
  • Urdu: “لیک پلاسیڈ، نیو یارک”
  • Vietnamese: “Lake Placid, New York”
  • Vietnamese: “Lake Placid”
  • Volapük: “Lake Placid, New York”
  • Volapük: “Lake Placid”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lake Placid, New York”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lake Placid”
  • Welsh: “Lake Placid, Efrog Newydd”
  • Welsh: “Lake Placid”
  • Wu Chinese: “普莱西德湖”
  • Wu Chinese: “普莱西德湖村”
  • Yue Chinese: “普萊西德湖”
  • Yue Chinese: “普萊西德湖村”

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