Lake Placid Winter Olympic Museum
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.Photo: Vinckie, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Opening hours: 10:00 AM—5:00 PM
- Type: Museum
- Description: in Lake Placid, New York
- Also known as: “Lake Placid Olympic Museum”
- Address: 2634 Main Street, Lake Placid, NY
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Herb Brooks Arena and Mirror Lake.
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 460 feet southwest of 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 station
Railway station
Photo: Mwanner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Lake Placid Station is a former railroad station, built by the Delaware and Hudson Railway in Lake Placid, New York. 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 Grand Central Terminal to Lake Placid. Lake Placid station is situated 3,000 feet south of Lake Placid Winter Olympic Museum.
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 4½ miles west of Lake Placid Winter Olympic Museum.
Lake Placid Winter Olympic Museum
- Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
- Location: Town of North Elba, Essex, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
44.28434° or 44° 17′ 4″ northLongitude
-73.98468° or 73° 59′ 5″ westOpen location code
87P872M8+P4OpenStreetMap ID
node 4030265814OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesWikidata ID
Q4306269
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Lake Placid Winter Olympic Museum” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “متحف ليك بلاسيد الأولمبي”
- Russian: “Музей зимней Олимпиады (Лейк-Плэсид)”
- Russian: “Музей зимней Олимпиады в Лейк-Плэсиде”
- Russian: “Музей зимней Олимпиады”
- Spanish: “Museo Olímpico de Lake Placid”
Notable Places Nearby
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