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Lake Placid
- Area
- 8.21 km²
- Max depth
- 15 m
- Tonight
- 21°FCloudy · Wind 5 mph N
Lake Placid is a lake at 566 m above sea level in New York, United States, 8.21 km² in area and 6.7 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 566 m
- Length
- 6.7 km
- Shoreline
- 35.8 km
Lake Placid in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 35.8 km≈9 h to walk around
Lake Placid 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 8.7 × 8.7 km
Lake Placid terrain and contours
25 m contours from the USGS 3DEP 10 m terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
Lake Placid elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Lake Placid weather
Tonight · Cloudy · 21°F (-6°C) · Wind 5 mph N
Lake Placid forecast for about 647 m.
- Tonight21°–5 mph N
- Sat27°54°–3 mph NW
- Sun38°59°–5 mph SW
- Mon27°55°6%6 mph W
- Tue24°44°4%3 mph N
- Wed34°50°7%2 mph SW
- Thu41°57°27%2–8 mph SW
Forecast data: NOAA National Weather Service, public domain, model run Oct 23, 22:36 UTC.
Camping & parking near Lake Placid
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Lake Placid, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
0.8 km WSW
Nearest trailhead
Brewster Peninsula Trails Parking Area
Nearest campsite
Meadowbrook Campground
All mapped places 7
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 0.8 km WSW |
| Parking | 0.8 km WSW |
| Parking | 1.0 km WSW |
| Brewster Peninsula Trails Parking AreaTrailhead | 1.6 km S |
| Route 86 Old Logger's Road Trail Parking AreaTrailhead | 3.9 km SE |
| Trailhead | 4.1 km S |
| Meadowbrook CampgroundCampsite | 6.8 km WSW |
Slope
Share of the 8.7 × 8.7 km view by steepness, from the 10 m model.
Mostly gentle: 70% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 3.2% of the 76 km² view
- Relief in view
- 696 m low point 494 m
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 4.3 km of Lake Placid.
Summit list 6
- 1Mount Whitney804 m 2.1 km SE
- 2Cobble Hill712 m 3.3 km SSE
- 3Mount Colburn885 m 3.5 km W
- 4Mount Tamarac945 m 3.7 km W
- 5Moose Mountain1,180 m 3.9 km NW
- 6Eagle Eyrie802 m 4.1 km NNE
Where Lake Placid sits
- Range
- Adirondack Mountains6
- Region
- New York58United States932North America1,313
Nearby places
Mirror Lake↑3.8 km S
Whiteface MountainPeak · 1,484 m↑7.5 km NE
Lake Flower↑12 km W
Avalanche Lake↑21 km S
Mount MarcyPeak · 1,629 m↑24 km S
More in the Adirondack Mountains 2
Lake Placid downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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Data sources
- Terrain
- U.S. Geological Survey, 3D Elevation Program (public domain)
- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025 (scene 2025-09-16)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Camping & parking, Geometry
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Panorama
- Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from NOAA National Weather Service (public domain)