Rainy day activities near Ticonderoga, NY?
August 8, 2008 7:32 AM Subscribe
Rainy day activities near Ticonderoga, NY?
We're heading up to Lake George this weekend (Ticonderoga, NY), and the weather for Sunday looks like it's going to be a wash. Can anyone recommend some fun rainy day things to do in that general area? It looks like Lake Placid and Burlington are both about 1.5 hours away, so checking out one of those would probably be a good option, but if there's something closer or more interesting/unusual to check out, I'd love to hear about it. Thanks.
We're heading up to Lake George this weekend (Ticonderoga, NY), and the weather for Sunday looks like it's going to be a wash. Can anyone recommend some fun rainy day things to do in that general area? It looks like Lake Placid and Burlington are both about 1.5 hours away, so checking out one of those would probably be a good option, but if there's something closer or more interesting/unusual to check out, I'd love to hear about it. Thanks.
Yes to Burlington!
Saratoga Springs is also nearby--oh, hour-and-a-half south, maybe. There's a horse racing museum there, lots of huge old mansions to gawk at, and a downtown area with coffee shops and good restaurants and quirky little bookstores, boutiques, etc.
There are several small museums in the area:
Fort Ticonderoga, which you probably know about already!
Penfield Homestead Museum in Crown Point (practically on your doorstep)
Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake
The Wild Center/Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks is in Tupper Lake, which is a drive, but I hear it's great.
Not really a rainy day destination, but as long as you're there... Street Road (yeah, that's its name) on the edge of Ti has a whole bunch of fantastic little farmstands with local vegetables and berries and plants. There's a roundabout with a statue at the south end of town--you just head west on Rt 8 there and go past WalMart for four or five little stands.
Heck, if you can just find yourself somewhere to sit with a cup of coffee and a view of either of the lakes, you'll be set. Champlain is especially incredible with storms rollings across it.
posted by hippugeek at 9:40 AM on August 8, 2008
Saratoga Springs is also nearby--oh, hour-and-a-half south, maybe. There's a horse racing museum there, lots of huge old mansions to gawk at, and a downtown area with coffee shops and good restaurants and quirky little bookstores, boutiques, etc.
There are several small museums in the area:
Fort Ticonderoga, which you probably know about already!
Penfield Homestead Museum in Crown Point (practically on your doorstep)
Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake
The Wild Center/Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks is in Tupper Lake, which is a drive, but I hear it's great.
Not really a rainy day destination, but as long as you're there... Street Road (yeah, that's its name) on the edge of Ti has a whole bunch of fantastic little farmstands with local vegetables and berries and plants. There's a roundabout with a statue at the south end of town--you just head west on Rt 8 there and go past WalMart for four or five little stands.
Heck, if you can just find yourself somewhere to sit with a cup of coffee and a view of either of the lakes, you'll be set. Champlain is especially incredible with storms rollings across it.
posted by hippugeek at 9:40 AM on August 8, 2008
Whoops, sorry! Street Road is a continuation of 9-N, not of 8. It's called Wicker Road where you take that turn at the roundabout.
Oh, and consider a meal, or at least an enormous strawberry shortcake, at the Hot Biscuit Diner. (HBD has a website?! The internet really is everywhere...) It's a little corny, but good basic diner fare with friendly service, and the walls are covered old Adirondack farming and trapping implements. Kind of like Cracker Barrel, but for real.
posted by hippugeek at 10:03 AM on August 8, 2008
Oh, and consider a meal, or at least an enormous strawberry shortcake, at the Hot Biscuit Diner. (HBD has a website?! The internet really is everywhere...) It's a little corny, but good basic diner fare with friendly service, and the walls are covered old Adirondack farming and trapping implements. Kind of like Cracker Barrel, but for real.
posted by hippugeek at 10:03 AM on August 8, 2008
Cooperstown is about an hour and a half ride too I think.
posted by JohnnyGunn at 10:58 AM on August 8, 2008
posted by JohnnyGunn at 10:58 AM on August 8, 2008
I like the Adirondack Scenic Railway, which runs between Saranac Lake & Lake Placid. Especially if you have little kids who love trains.
If you go to Burlington, you can take one of the ferries over the lake.
posted by saffry at 5:05 PM on August 8, 2008
If you go to Burlington, you can take one of the ferries over the lake.
posted by saffry at 5:05 PM on August 8, 2008
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posted by Biblio at 8:17 AM on August 8, 2008