A Real Mountain Lake Placid was just named number one in North America for off-hill activities by Ski Magazine, which also happened last year, and the year before, and the year before that. In fact Lake Placid has been sited as the model ski resort of the future.
Experts foresee the end of purely ski resorts and the rise of the total mountain resort.
Lake Placid is already there. Lake Placid isn't just an outdoor mall like some resorts. There are no sprawling developments, no strip malls, no endless lines of traffic. Lake Placid isn't a corporate notion of what a ski resort should be. The Slides opened for the first time last winter and skiers enjoyed massive amounts of powder.