Directions to Lake Placid
The best way to come to Lake Placid is to fly to the Burlington International Airport in Burlington, Vermont and to rent a car there for the drive to Lake Placid. You can also fly to the Albany, New York State
Airport and to drive Lake Placid from the airport. Both drives are very scenic drives, but the drive from Burlington is more pleasant ( you take a ferry boat across Lake Champlain). Burlington is also a beautiful small city on the shores of Lake Champlain with lots of good restaurants. There are easy connections from any major city in the US to both Burlington and Albany. You can certainly drive from New York City (5 hours) or Boston (5 1/2 hours), but you can also encounter serious traffic getting out of either of these cities. You really want to avoid the exit traffic from either of these cities. If you are thinking of coming through Montreal (2 1/2 hours), there are rather long lines at the border in June, and you will definitely need a passport. I have modified the directions from Google Map to make life a bit easier.
One last note-in the event that you arrive in Boston, there is a commuter airline which flies to an airport 20 miles from Lake Placid,
the Adirondack Regional Airport in Lake Clear.
The airline schedule is at capeair
Directions from Burlington to Lake Placid
There are two routes to Lake Placid, both of which involve taking a ferry across Lake Champlain. One ferry leaves from downtown Burlington, minutes from the airport and takes an hour to cross Lake Champlain. This is the Burlington-Port Kent ferry. If your plane arrives when this ferry is still running, it is a beautiful crossing, but check the ferry schedule first ferry schedule. Otherwise you can take the Grand Isle ferry, which operates on a 24 hour per day schedule and only takes 15 minutes to cross the lake. Both drives are a delight.
Directions to Lake Placid via the Burlington-Port Kent ferry are as follows (about 2 hours)
- Exit the airport and turn let onto Airport Drive
- Follow Airport Drive to Williston Road
- Right onto US-2, Williston Road
- Continue to Main Street
- Turn let at Battery Street
- Turn right at King Street
- Take the Burlington-Port Kent ferry to Keeseville
- Continue straight onto Front St/TR 373
- Follow 373 to Route 9, US-9 and turn left
onto Route 9
- Turn right onto TR 9N
- Continue on RT-9N to RT-86
- Turn right on RT-86 to Lake Placid. You will enter the
town on Main Street
- Take Main Street to the end of town (Saranac Avenue)
make a left. You are at the hotel.
Directions to Lake Placid via the Grand Isle Ferry (about 2 hours)
Directions to the Grand Isle ferry are as follows
- Left onto Airport Drive. Take Airport Drive to US-2/Williston Road.
- Right onto Williston Road. Take Williston Road to I-89.
- Turn RIGHT onto I-89
- Go to exit 17. Exit onto US-2.
- Continue to Ferry Road/VT-314.
- Left onto Ferry Road/VT-314 to the Grand Isle Ferry Terminal
Directions from the Grand Isle ferry to Lake Placid are as follows:
- Take the ferry to Plattsburgh, New York State
- Exit the ferry onto RT-314 (just follow your nose)
- Continue on RT-314 to I-87 South (if you go north, you wind up in Canada)
- Continue south on I-87 to exit 34.
- Make a left onto RT-9N
- Take RT-9N to RT-86.
- Make a right onto RT-86
- To stay on RT-86, you will need to turn left after passing through the town
of Wilmington. You will pass by Whiteface Mountain ski center on the way to Lake Placid.
Continue to Lake Placid You will enter the
town on Main Street
- Take Main Street to the end of town (Saranac Avenue),
make a left. You are at the hotel.
Directions from Albany, New York State International Airport to Lake Placid (about 2 1/2 hours)
- Exit the airport, following the access road to I-87
- Turn left (north) onto I-87 (if you go south, you wind up in New York City)
- Take exit 30. Make a left onto RT 9
- RT 9 merges into RT 73.
- Continue on RT 73 to Lake Placid (you will pass the ski jumps just outside of town)
- Take Main Street to the end of town (Saranac Avenue),
make a left. You are at the hotel.
Directions from JFK, New York City to Lake Placid may be found at googlejfk
Directions from Logan Airport in Boston, Mass. to Lake Placid may be found at googlelogan
Directions from the Adirondack Regional Airport to Lake Placid(about 1/2 hour)
- Head west on Airport road
- Turn left at Lake Clear Road (RT-186)
- Turn right at Harrietstown Road (RT-86)
- Turn left at River Street (RT-3/RT-86)
- Turn right at Lake Flower Avenu (RT-86)
- Follow RT-86 into Lake Placid (about 9 miles)
- The hotel will be on your right just as you arrive at Main St. in Lake Placid
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