BACKROADS • JULY 2021
WE’RE OUTTA HERE
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a weekend destinationkeeping you on the backroads
GOLDEN ARROW LAKESIDE RESORT 2559 MAIN ST, LAKE PLACID, NY 12946 518-302-0480 • www.golden-arrow.com
Now and again we like to look back at a place that we have stayed a few times and bring the inn back into the pages of Backroads. Several years ago we held a Fall Fiesta at this month’s WOH escape, and everyone had a great time and we have had many requests to return. And, we shall, but between then and now let’s take a ride into the Adirondacks, a park that contains six-million acres, and covers 1/5 of New York State. This park was created in 1892 and is the largest park in the contiguous United States – it is equal in size to neighboring Vermont, and is nearly three times the size of Yellowstone National Park! Big, lots of roads for all styles of riding.
Big long scenic byways, very tight and twisty mountain roads, and plenty of well-maintained gravel for you ADV-riders. There are many little towns sprinkled through the forests and mountains, but none of such fame as Lake Placid, New York. The town is famous for its international sports. It was here that a unique double occurred when American Eddie Eagan achieved an incredible feat by winning gold medals in both summer and winter sports. In 1920 in Antwerp, he had won the light-heavyweight boxing category at the Olympic Summer Games. In Lake Placid, 12 years later, he won in the four-man bobsleigh. Sixty-one years later Lake Placid was witness to the Miracle on Ice, the great U. S. Hockey Team’s Victory over the Russians in 1980. Today the mountain town is still a winter sports destination, but during the warmer months, it is a super base-camp for riding the hundreds of superb miles of road that wind through the deep woods and mountains of the Adirondacks.
