New York’s highest village (1846 feet), Lake Placid has hosted two Olympic Winter Games — in 1980 and 1932, an honor shared only by Innsbruck, Austria, St. Moritz, Switzerland, and the Savoy region in France. But Whiteface Mountain and skiing aren’t the only things Lake Placid offers.

The area is an all-season destination. In summer, there’s the Lake Placid Horse Show (June 24-29), which is America’s largest horse show; the Ironman Triathlon (July 20); and the Third Annual Geoff Bodine Bobsled Challenge (January 3-5). While culturally there’s the Lake Placid Center for the Arts, the Lake Placed Film Forum and the recently opened WILD Center | Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks, featuring a ‘Living River’, which tracks the path of a marsh to its source at the top of a peak.

Contacts:

• Whiteface Mountain
  Contact: Bridget Hinman
  Rt. 86 Wilmington, NY 12997
  Bus: (518) 946-2223
  Email: ski@whiteface.com
• Contact: Margaret Marchuk
  Director of Media Relations
  Bus: (518) 523.2445 ext. 189
  margaret@lakeplacid.com
• Lake Placid Horse Show
  5514 Cascade Road
  Lake Placid, NY 12946
  Bus: (518) 523-9625
  Bus Fax: (518) 523-9614
  Email: lphsa@centralny.twcbc.com
• Ironman Triathlon
  North America Sports Athlete Services
  1919 14th Street, Suite 407
  Boulder, CO 80302
  Bus: (888) 280-9027, ext. 27 or (303) 442-9097, ext. 27
  Email: media@nasports.com
• Geoff Bodine Bobsled Challenge
  Contact: Sandy Caligore
  Olympic Regional Development Authority
  2634 Main Street
  Lake Placid, NY 12946
  Bus: (518) 523-1655
• Lake Placid Center for the Arts
  17 Algonquin Drive
  Lake Placid, NY 12946
  Bus: (518) 523-2512
  Email: info@lakeplacidarts.org
• Lake Placid Film Forum
  PO Box 489
  Lake Placid, NY 12946
  Bus: (518) 523-3456
• WILD Centre | Natural History Museum of The Adirondacks
  Contact: Sara Tagliarino
  45 Tupper Lake, NY 12986
  Bus: (518) 359-7800
  Bus Fax: (518) 359-3253
  Email: stagliarino@wildcenter.org

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