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Visiting Lake Placid

INTO THE TREES: Take a stroll through a Lake Placid maple sugarbush

LAKE PLACID — A rock throw from the Adirondack High Peaks, sap courses through over 100 miles of tubing like blood through veins across more than 200 acres of forest. Tucked away on Bear Cub Lane, Cornell University’s Uihlein Maple Research Forest is not only a core asset of Cornell ...

4 stops on Lake Placid’s Historic Walking Tour

LAKE PLACID — The village of Lake Placid was incorporated in 1900, and the town of North Elba was formed in 1849 when it broke away from the town of Keene. Native Americans spent time in this region before the first European settlers began arriving around 1800, setting up farms around ...

INTO THE TREES: To spike or not to spike

Parking on state Route 9 and looking up at the Hurricane Mountain trailhead Tuesday, March 5, all things pointed to spring. The ground was bare, if muddy, and the sun was shining over a mild, 50-degree day. In the mountains, however, things are rarely as they seem below. Mountain ...

INTO THE TREES: Faith on Mount Jo

The end of Adirondack Loj Road is a wonderland of possibility, standing as one of the most centralized gateways into the heart of the Adirondack High Peaks. I went, however, for my second Lake Placid 9’er on Monday, Feb. 26 — Mount Jo — my first being Cobble Hill in Lake ...

INTO THE TREES: Touring the Olympic Jumping Complex

Just outside of the village on state Route 73, the Olympic Jumping Complex is a sight to behold, rich in the region’s ever-present Olympic history. Turning into the property, I was met with an empty parking lot. I thought, “This can’t be it.” I drove across the lot to a kiosk, which ...