Lake Placid is a village in the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,303.

The village of Lake Placid is close the middle of the town of North Elba, 50 miles (80 km) southwest of Plattsburgh. Lake Placid, along with to hand Saranac Lake and Tupper Lake, comprise what is known as the Tri-Lakes region. Lake Placid hosted the 1932 and the 1980 Winter Olympics, the 1972 and 2023 Winter World University Games as without difficulty as the 2000 Goodwill Games.

Lake Placid was founded in the to the fore 19th century to manufacture an iron ore mining operation. By 1840, the population of “North Elba” (four miles southeast of the present village, near where the road to the Adirondak Loj crosses the Ausable River), was six families. In 1845, the philanthropist Gerrit Smith arrived in North Elba and not unaccompanied bought a good deal of land not in the distance off from the village but established large tracts to former slaves. He reformed the house law and demonstrated his sustain of abolitionism.

The abolitionist John Brown heard approximately Smith’s reforms, and left his anti-slavery endeavors in Kansas to buy 244 acres (1.0 km) of home in North Elba. This parcel well along became known as the “Freed Slave Utopian Experiment,” Timbuctoo. Shortly back his ability in 1859, John Brown asked to be buried upon his farm, preserved as the John Brown Farm State Historic Site.^{[citation needed]}