Lake Placid/Essex County Convention & Visitors Bureau
Conference Center at Lake Placid
Technologically savvy and environmentally sound, the Conference Center at Lake Placid exists in perfect harmony with its natural landscape.
The Conference Center at Lake Placid is a green building, constructed within its sheltered Adirondack setting, and the health and comfort of our guests in mind. Construction techniques adhere to the criteria set forth by the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design consortium) and incorporate optimized.jpg)
energy performance, renewable, recycled materials and natural daylight. The center anticipates Gold LEED certification upon completion in 2011.
Lake Placid is a real community, with nights where you can see the stars and people who care about their hometown. In its storied past, the world came here twice to hold its Olympic winter games. Today, you’re free to join in and fill your days with the things that make life more adventurous, romantic and fun.
Lake Placid is a place where large world-class events and small corporate meetings inspire professional and personal expression, and invite unique participation.
- Over 90,000 square feet of flexible meeting space
- Full-service production kitchen with menus to suit a variety of group programs, tastes and budgets
- Full lighting systems
- Stages, along with backstage dressing rooms and storage space
- Loading docks
- 9,000-square-foot ballroom
- Security
- Handicapped accessibility
- Specialized personnel on-call
- Spectacular setting in the High Peaks of the Adirondack mountains
Accommodations
The Lake Placid community offers numerous full-service resorts to welcome and accommodate the needs of groups of all sizes, many offering unique meeting facilities appropriate for additional breakout sessions.
Host lodging properties range from full service resorts with 250 rooms to smaller more value-minded facilities giving your attendees a wide range of properties to choose for their taste and your meeting budget.
Cultural Facilities & Activities
In Lake Placid, a day of successful meetings ends with an exciting team bobsled run, a round of golf on a century-old course, shopping on the quaint main street or a reception high atop an Olympic ski jump. In this place that invites and celebrates participation at all levels, inspiration finds balance with aspiration.
Your group is invited to explore beyond the boundaries of the conference center, and our expert staff will assist you in inventing your own custom program of meetings and activities.
Services
Lake Placid has hosted world-class events, intimate meetings and visitors seeking to invent their own perfect day for over 100 years. Allow our experts to assist you as you plan your next meeting in a place where large world-class events and small corporate meetings inspire professional and personal expression, and invite unique participation.
- Development of comprehensive itineraries and spousal programs
- Coordination of hotel bids and proposals
- Centralized accounting and online reservation system
- Consolidated invoices
Transportation
Lake Placid is closer than you think, and its spectacular Adirondack setting will take you away from it all.
By car: Located within a 2 1/2 hour drive from Albany and Montreal and less than a five-hour drive from New York Syracuse and Rochester, N.Y.; Boston; Hartford, Conn.; and Ottawa.
Railway access is available from New York and Albany with tickets that include a shuttle ride from the Westport station.
Major airports: Lake Placid is within 2 1/2 hours driving time of three major airports: Albany, N.Y.; Burlington, VT.; and Montreal. All are serviced by major airline carriers and have car rentals available.
Plattsburgh, N.Y., has new daily air service direct from Boston on US Airways Express and also Allegiant Air from the Florida destinations of Daytona, Ft Lauderdale, Orlando and Tampa Bay-St. Petersburg.
For More Info
Conference Center at Lake Placid
Tracey Ridenour Director of Sales & Marketing
2634 Main St.; P.O. Box 1570
Lake Placid, NY 12946
Toll Free: (800) 758-0689
Fax: (518) 523-2605