Lake Placid, a famous place for New Yorkers as a recreational spot is located in the Essex county. It hosted two Winter Olympics event in the past, 1932 and 1980.
Lake Placid is well known among winter-sports enthusiasts for its skiing, both Alpine and Nordic. Whiteface Mountain (4,867 ft or 1,483 m), in nearby Wilmington about 13 miles (21 km) from Lake Placid, offers skiing, hiking, gondola rides, and mountain biking, and is the only one of the High Peaks that can be reached via an auto road. Whiteface Mountain has a vertical elevation of 3,430 feet (1045.464m), the highest vertical elevation of mountains in Eastern North America. The area has one of only sixteen bobsled runs in the western hemisphere, and is one of the few places in the contiguous United States which offers dogsled and sleigh rides
REFERENCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Placid,_New_York
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