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
What to do and see in Adirondacks, Adirondacks: The Best Nature & Wildlife Areas
Discover the best top things to do in Adirondacks, United States including Adirondack Experience, The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake, Lake Lila Primitive Area, Owl Head Mountain, Paul Smith's College VIC, The Wild Center, Sucker Brook Trail, McKenzie Mountain Wilderness.
Restaurants in Adirondacks
1. Adirondack Experience, The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 427 reviews
We look forward to seeing you here this summer! We’re committed to working together to create a safe experience for our team and visitors. For everyone’s health and safety, capacity in our exhibits will be limited and visitor flow will be coordinated to maintain social distancing throughout the Museum. Advance timed tickets will need to be reserved online before you visit. Watch for our new online ticket reservations coming soon! See you this summer!
2. Lake Lila Primitive Area
3. Owl Head Mountain
4. Paul Smith's College VIC
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 75 reviews
The 3,000-acre Paul Smith's College VIC features 6 miles of interpretive trails and 8 miles of back country trails that showcase the natural beauty of the Adirondack Mountains and provide unparalleled opportunities to view, hear, photograph, and enjoy nature. Free admission. The VIC also offers a wide variety of arts, sports, and educational programs throughout the year, including bird walks and nature walks, trail runs, children's educational programs, art exhibits, concerts, lectures, workshops, and naturalist-led paddles. A native-species Butterfly House is open during the summer months. During the winter months, the trails are groomed and open for cross country skiing, snowshoeing, and skate skiing for a fee.
Reviewed By John41354 - Kinnelon, United States
My wife and I snowshoe at Paul Smith's College this past Thursday. Bring exact change to buy your daily pass and it is on the honor system. All of these trails were beautifully groomed and very well marked for classic cross-country skiing, skating and or snowshoeing. We were snowshoeing on beautiful trails with beautiful scenery toward the Jenkins Mountain lookout. Unfortunately we did not time it will and did not make it all the way to the lookout but what we saw was absolutely stunning. The privies along the side were quite amusing and we took quite a few pictures. In the five hours we were there we only soar to loan skiers, two skiers from the college doing their work out and another young couple looking like their first time on cross-country skis. If you can go during the week. We will be going back there hopefully next year.
5. The Wild Center
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 948 reviews
The Wild Center's outdoor-only experience is open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. The Wild Center is an 115-acre hands-on place to get all kinds of new perspectives on the wild world of the Adirondacks. It will include Wild Walk, a brand new trail across the treetops starting in the summer of 2015. The Wall Street Journal called The Wild Center "Glorious" in its review, and The New York Times called it "stunning". The Center has live animals, a wide screen theater, canoes, its own river, guides walks, tons of cutting-edge green building systems, and the only treetop walk in the Adirondacks.
Reviewed By labanc2017 - Montgomery, United States
This place is great for those under 80! Filled with hands on learning exhibits, it is a cross between a zoo, a nature center, a playground and a museum. Roll that all together and you have a world of fun, and education. Inside you have a world of knowledge and information in the exhibits along with river otters, fish, ducks, snakes, frogs, toads, turtles and many more. The movie theater shows 6 short clips throughout the day. The cafe was a refreshing change offering healthier fresh cooked soups, sandwiches, Mac and cheese, cookies and other fare. Outside there are trails and the wild walk which takes you up above trees teaching to along the way as you observe and interact with how animals such as spiders, birds, bears, and deer life and interact with their environment. This place is especially good for families with young children. As an added bonus the admission is good for 2 days.
6. Sucker Brook Trail
Overall Ratings
3.5 based on 2 reviews
A recommended hiking trail in the Adirondack region.
