Top Things to do in Adirondacks
Top Hotels in Adirondacks
- 1. Hampton Inn & Suites Lake Placid
- 2. The Alpine Lodge
- 3. Crowne Plaza Lake Placid, an IHG Hotel
- 4. Hotel Saranac, Curio Collection by Hilton
- 5. Placid Bay Hotel
- 6. Saranac Waterfront Lodge
- 7. Town House Lodge
- 8. Best Western Saranac Lake
- 9. Best Western Adirondack Inn
- 10. Courtyard by Marriott Lake Placid
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Top 6 Historic Sites in Adirondacks, Adirondacks
Discover the best top things to do in Adirondacks, United States including Wanakena Footbridge, Bartok Cabin, Town of Webb Historic Association, John Brown Farm State Historic Site, Saranac Laboratory Museum, North Creek Depot Museum.
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1. Wanakena Footbridge
2. Bartok Cabin
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 1 reviews
Tours of the Bartok Cabin are available ONLY through Historic Saranac Lake. The cabin where Hungarian composer Bela Bartok stayed during the last two summers of his life. Please call or email Historic Saranac Lake to set up an appointment. These tours are available on an appointment-only basis, so advanced notice is required. The Cabin is on private property, so access is only available through HSL.
3. Town of Webb Historic Association
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5.0 based on 23 reviews
The Town of Webb Historical Association is the home of the Goodsell Museum. We are located in a turn of the century house, which also has a barn and ice house to visit. The Museum have six room which display items showing the history of this area. Most of these exhibits change yearly. On the main floor we have an exhibit of technology as it came to the area. Another room is dedicated to taxidermy. Upstairs is a doctor's office, ca 1950's, a room telling the story of the previous owners, and two other rotating exhibits.
4. John Brown Farm State Historic Site
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4.5 based on 261 reviews
This National Historic Landmark and New York State Historic Site contains the home and final resting place of the Underground Railroad conductor and insurrectionist, who moved here in an attempt to establish a community of freed slaves and abolitionists.
Reviewed By 123Nishi - New York City, United States
Located in North Elba, just behind the Olympic ski jump in Lake Placid, this farm was home of John Brown. An American abolitionist whose raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859 made him a martyr to the antislavery cause and was unintentionally instrumental in heightening sectional animosities that led to the American Civil War. This history of urban African American failed settlements in the area is touching. There are some wonderful walks behind the farm. A must to visit.
5. Saranac Laboratory Museum
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4.5 based on 71 reviews
Built in 1894, The Saranac Laboratory was the first lab built in the U.S. for the research of tuberculosis. Historic Saranac Lake painstakingly restored the building and opened it as a museum in 2009. The museum is open with exhibits on scientific research and patient care. Historic Saranac Lake is not-for-profit architectural preservation organization that captures and presents local history from our center at the Saranac Laboratory Museum.
Reviewed By hehteach
My sister, brother, and I discovered this museum accidentally. For us it prompted many memories of our mother who had been a patient at Ray Brook in the 1930's. The displays and the DVD presentation captured the reality of her life during her treatment and recovery from TB.
6. North Creek Depot Museum
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4.0 based on 6 reviews
Reviewed By MattTraveler
What a charming little museum. The rail diorama is fantastic -- far more interesting and informative than the usual miniature railroad exhibit. And the room devoted to Gore Mountain and the early days of alpine skiing in NY was truly fascinating. Made us wish we could go back to the 1930s and take the Snow Train up to North Creek!
