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Experience Lake Placid - Whiteface Mountain - Gore Mountain - Titus Mountain
Lake Placid gets 170 inches of fine Eastern powder has been the site for the development of Olympic champions for decades, thus has to be regarded as one of the finest resorts in the East. Whiteface's windy slopes offer superb choices for the expert skier on Skyward, Approach, Empire, Essex, Upper Northway, and Cloudspin. Intermediates will find that they have all they can handle on Paron's Run, The Follies, and Excelsior. There's lots for the beginners and children to perfect their skills on, with two separate areas, The Kids Kampus at Easy Acres and the Mixing Bowl. When it's time to try out a real slope, Boreen is the beginner's choice.
Lake Placid is one the few Eastern ski resorts that really takes children seriously when it comes to having fun on artificial features. Kid's Park on Bronze is a fantastic Terrain Park for kids to start off with that's suited to their size and skill level. They will find all sorts of child-sized bumps, mini-jumps, rollers, a mini-halfpipe and even some safe PVC rails. Beginner adult skiers will want to head for the Lower Valley Mini-Park which is a neophyte's dream Terrain Park including mini-tables, small hits, rails, and boxes. The intermediate to expert skier has more artificial feature choices at Lake Placid than anywhere else. The Bear Super Pipe and 79 Railpark is a fully enclosed railpark with multiple lines; Lower Thruway has multiple rails, table tops, hits, and many more challenging features; Brookside Park is an absolutely unbelievable world class Terrain Park that will test any skier’s skills. While we’re on the subject of world class, Lake Placid's Super Pipe is the site of several international championship challenges. Whiteface's Ski School is internationally renowned and offers such famous courses for all ages and experience levels as Parallel From The Start and the Burton Learn To Ride Program, as well as the Ski/Ride To Perfection Program.
The Lake Placid area has one of the finest selections of restaurants you'll find at any ski resort anywhere, but most of them are very high-buck. For the family budget and tastes, the best selections are: Downtown Diner, The New Leaf, Chair 6, Mr. Mike's Pizza, Downhill Grill, Desperados, and the local favorite, the Caribbean Cowboy.
You've watched it on television and you know you want to try it! Well, take a deep breath and get ready to careen down the mountain in the half-mile bobsled rides and Luge Rocket at Mount Vanhoevenberg Sports Complex. The site of one of America's greatest Winter Olympics, Lake Placid is the place where you can live out all your Olympian fantasies. You can skate down the ice of the Olympic Speed Skating Oval just like the champions. You can tour the MacKenzie-Intervale Ski Jumping Complex's chairlift and elevator ride, and then stare down that impossibly steep and long ramp to determine if you could ever build up the courage to jump it. If that's not enough thrills you can take a truly extreme toboggan run on Mirror Lake which has some eye-opening descents and milder hills for the kids.
The Saranac Lake Winter Carnival
The Winter Carnival and Ice Palace are not to be missed. Each year since just before 1900, the locals have volunteered to make a huge palace out of massive blocks of ice cut from the frozen lake. The palaces include throne rooms, chambers, etc, and now reach over 50 feet in height! During that week-long festival, you'll find more fascinating things to see and do there than anywhere else in the country!
The Saranac Lake Winter Carnival had its beginning around 1897, a tradition which continues to this day. Originally a partial remedy for Cabin Fever, the festival is built around the construction of an enormous ice palace built of 700 pound blocks of lake ice. (Refrigeration not having been invented yet, ice cutting was a welcome industry.) Cut from the frozen lakes for use in the cities, these huge blocks of ice were shipped by train, and so the building of the Ice Palace became a competitive celebration of that profession. Each year the carvers would strive to out-do the last version, making the palaces ever more intricate and elaborate. Today's Palaces are a staggering 50 feet tall, include throne rooms, chambers, etc., and sport an ice slide that takes visitors on a ride out to the lake itself. Modern palaces are made by engineering students and other volunteers, who carve and assemble more than three thousand blocks, each 2 feet by 2 feet by 4 feet long. A magnificent structure, the Winter Carnival and Ice Palace make for a great winter activity - vacation !
GORE
MOUNTAIN
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Gore Mountain Summit Elevation - 3600 feet | Base Elevation - 1500 feet | Vertical Rise - 2100 feet | Lifts - 11 Total | Total Ski/Ride Terrain - 320 acres | Snowmaking - 97% | Number of Trails - 73 | Degree of Difficulty - Easiest: 10%, More Difficult: 60%, Most Difficult: 30% |
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| WHITEFACE |
Whiteface Summit Elevation - 4,386 feet | Base Elevation - 1,220 feet | Vertical Rise - 3,166 feet | Lifts - 10 Total | Total Ski/Ride Terrain - 215 acres | Snowmaking - 97% | Number of Trails - 73 | Degree of Difficulty - Easiest: 20%, More Difficult: 36%, Most Difficult: 44% |
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| TITUS
MOUNTAIN |
Titus Mountain Vertical - 2,650 ft | Base elevation - 1,485 ft | Summit elevation - 4,135 ft | Number of Trails - 27 | Terrain - 4,000 acres | Degree of Difficulty - Easiest: 18%, More Difficult: 39%, Most Difficult: 43% | Snowmaking - 68% | Lifts -6 |
