— Region —
Lake Placid.
Lake Placid's independent hotel scene got a significant new entrant when Eastwind Hotels opened its Adirondack outpost (their third, after the two Catskills properties). Whiteface Lodge is the rustic Adirondack resort that stayed independent through the consolidation wave. Lake Placid Inn Boutique Hotel is the downtown pick. Bluebird Lake Placid is part of Lark Hotels and therefore excluded from this list.
3 hotels on the list

Lake Placid, NY
Eastwind Lake Placid
The Eastwind trio's Adirondack project — seventeen rooms in the main house, eight new-build cabins on the Chubb River.

Lake Placid, NY
The Whiteface Lodge
Hunting-lodge aesthetic at resort scale — a 94-suite Adirondack retreat with serious lodge-y bones.
Photography coming
Lake Placid, NY
Lake Placid Inn Boutique Hotel
Forty rooms across from the Olympic Speed Skating Oval — the downtown Adirondack option.
Aesthetics present in Lake Placid
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