Lake Placid Olympic Museum
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Lake Placid Olympic Museum is a museum in New York, at a modelled elevation of 577 m. Whiteface Mountain stands 1,466 m to the northeast, 6.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Lake Placid Hall of Fame, a museum less than a tenth of a mile away. High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73) passes 0.4 miles off.
The story
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. Until Salt Lake City hosts the 2034 Games, Lake Placid is the only North American city to have hosted two separate Winter Olympics.
The museum, which was opened by New York State in 1994, is located within the Olympic Center. Its collection includes the "Fram III" bobsled from the 1932 Olympic Games which had been missing for more than sixty years prior to being donated to the museum, the skates used by Jack Shea in the same games, as well as memorabilia from the 1980 Miracle on Ice hockey team. The museum also hosted the Olympic torch when it traveled the United States prior to the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. In addition to hosting the Lake Placid film forum, the museum's collection also provided materials for the 2004 movie Miracle, which focused on the 1980 hockey team. The museum was the recipient of the 2005 Olympic Cup, one of the oldest awards given by the International Olympic Committee, which recognizes institutions that have been active in the service of sport, and have contributed to the development of the Olympic Movement. It has benefited from and is augmented by the other Olympic institutions and programs located in and around Lake Placid which form part of former Governor Pataki's promotion of Lake Placid as a tourism destination. The museum draws between 25,000 and 35,000 visitors each year.
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Dates from 1994.
Wikidata Q4306269, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
- Fee
- Yes
- Step-free access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 0.4 mi off the High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73)
- On the Olympic Trail
- 13.5 mi off the Adirondack Trail
- 23.1 mi off the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Cobble Hill: 1.2 mi
- Mount Whitney: 2.0 mi
- Seymour Mountain: 2.6 mi
- Heaven Hill: 2.6 mi
- Hennessy Mountain: 2.7 mi
- Pulpit Rock: 2.0 mi
- Moss Cliff: 4.9 mi
- Weeping Winds: 5.9 mi
- The Courthouse: 10.2 mi
- Wallface: 10.4 mi
- Monument Falls: 3.9 mi
- Wanika Falls: 6.9 mi
- High Falls (Main): 7.0 mi
- High Falls (Mini): 7.0 mi
- Cascade Falls: 7.1 mi
- Mid's Park: 0.4 mi
- Kiwanis Teddy Bear Park: 0.5 mi
- Brewster Park: 0.5 mi
- Baldwin Park: 7.1 mi
- Prescott Park: 7.4 mi
- Kate Smith Memorial: 0.1 mi
- World War Memorial: 0.1 mi
- Historic Marker for Timbuctoo: 1.3 mi
- 1980 Winter Olympic cauldron: 1.8 mi
- John Brown Memorial Statue: 2.3 mi
- Lake Placid Olympic Ski Jumping Complex: 2.2 mi
- Skyride: 2.2 mi
- Sky Flyer Zipline: 2.2 mi
- John Brown Farm State Historic Site: 2.2 mi
- Cliffside Coaster: 5.5 mi
- Henry's Woods: 1.5 mi
- Heaven Hill Trails: 2.9 mi
- Bartlett Primitive Area: 8.9 mi
- Johns Brook Primitive Area: 10.6 mi
- Four Peaks Tract: 11.9 mi
- Lake Placid Hall of Fame: 0.0 mi
- Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage: 7.6 mi
- Historic Saranac Lake / Laboratory Museum: 7.7 mi
- Six Nations Indian Museum: 15.8 mi
- Adirondack history center museum: 20.0 mi
- Common Ground Garden: 8.8 mi
- Goolds Garden: 16.8 mi
- Peace Garden: 16.8 mi
- Town of Tupper Lake Community Garden: 24.1 mi
- Lake Placid Public Beach: 0.1 mi
- Big Wooden Bear (8'): 7.0 mi
- Tahawus: 16.5 mi
- Footbridge Park: 19.7 mi
- High Peaks Welcome Center: 23.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.4 miles of Lake Placid Olympic Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whiteface Mountain | NE 36° | 1,466 m | 6.9 mi |
| Nye Mountain | SSW 196° | 1,271 m | 7.0 mi |
| Street Mountain | SSW 196° | 1,265 m | 7.5 mi |
| Cascade Mountain | SE 126° | 1,249 m | 7.7 mi |
| Lookout Mountain | NE 37° | 1,242 m | 8.0 mi |
| Porter Mountain | SE 127° | 1,240 m | 8.2 mi |
| Kilburn Mountain | ENE 76° | 1,182 m | 5.2 mi |
| Moose Mountain | NNW 349° | 1,180 m | 4.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:30 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:13 | 20:00 | 20:44 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:17 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 15:32 | 16:20 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 15 | 18 | 26 | 39 | 51 | 60 | 64 | 63 | 56 | 44 | 32 | 21 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.3 | 2.9 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 3.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lake Placid 2 S, 1 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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