A short 2-hour drive from Albany will find you 'away-from-it-all'.
There are many options for traveling to Lake Placid. It's much closer than you might think!
Lake Placid is less than five hours' drive from Northeast metropolitan areas, including New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto. If you're driving ,click here for directions.
Railway access via Amtrak is available from New York, Albany and Montreal, with tickets that include a shuttle ride to Lake Placid from the Westport station.
Small private or corporate aircraft are able to fly directly into Lake Placid Aiport. Non-stop service via Cape Air commuter service from Boston's Logan Airport into Adirondack Regional Airport, just a 16 mile drive from Lake Placid, is available as well. The Boston to Saranac Lake flight is approximately 90-minutes. At approximately a two hour drive each from Lake Placid are the international airports in Albany, NY, Burlington, VT, and Montreal. Find more detailed airport information here.
