Guest Rooms range from luxurious Placid suites, to spacious lakeside/lakeview/mountainview rooms, to our comfortable and homey Colonial rooms. No American mountain resort offers a wider variety of winter activities than New York’s Adirondack Sports Capital. If you see Ed, don’t be shy.Resort hotel located in Lake Placid, New York in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains near Whiteface Mountain Ski Resort featuring luxurious Adirondack decor, with stone fireplaces and mahogany walls, 2 restaurants, spa/salon, meeting and convention facilities. Ed and Lisa raised five children at this inn including Andrew Weibrecht, a bronze medalist at Vancouver’s 2010 Winter Olympic Games and a member of the Sochi-bound U.S. Visit on a winter Saturday and you may spy the entire Weibrecht clan catching up on World Cup alpine ski racing. Guest rooms in the main inn are Christmascard perfect below them is a network of cell-phone-free drawing rooms, verandahs and mahogany-lined libraries where afternoon tea is served daily around 3 p.m.īut it’s the suites in the waterside Lake and Colonial Houses that teleport this hotel into 2014: modern Adirondack elegance reigns here with deep sofas, warm wooden paneling, fireplaces in nearly every room, views of the lake (with its private skating rink), and just beyond-the Adirondacks, snow-capped nearly every season. Every year for the holidays, 300,000 white lights are strung, 70 trees decorated and bedazzled, the halls and 29 fireplaces are decked with evergreen boughs and-surely Santa would approve-warm cookies are offered to guests each evening at the front desk. Today, her efforts have created a splendid, jolly vibe. national luge champ, Lisa (née Clune) Weibrecht turned her talents toward hotel management and design. His link with Whiteface Mountain and Lake Placid’s status as host of two Winter Olympic Games (19) helped morph the inn into one of the region’s grandest ski hotels.Ĭredit is due to Weibrecht’s wife Lisa for the hotel’s Victorian vibe. His friendship with the Wikoffs led to his 1976 purchase of what is now known as the Mirror Lake Inn. On food stamps and out of a job, he went looking for a project. “Except you can’t live on teaching skiing two days a week,” admits Weibrecht. When MCI transferred Weibrecht to D.C., he resigned and moved to Lake Placid to work as a ski instructor. who trekked to Whiteface Mountain to teach skiing every winter weekend. No word on whether Climena Wikoff was a skier, but Ed Weibrecht certainly was-a 1970s MCI executive in White Plains, N.Y. Climena Alford Wikoff let the workers in, offered them her family’s beds, and herded her own brood of Wikoffs up into the attic. Weary engineers knocked on its door looking for a place to rest. It’s been a refuge since 1883-first as a private family home, next as an inn, and finally as one of the Adirondacks’ most prestigious ski hotels with 25 years worth of AAA Four Diamond Awards and a restaurant applauded regularly by food and wine critics.Īs the story goes, the home debuted as an inn in 1924 just as phone lines were introduced to the Adirondacks. Standing silent on the banks of pretty Mirror Lake, the inn anchors the community of Lake Placid, N.Y. How would a ski hotel have looked in the heart of the Victorian era? White, one imagines, with evergreen boughs and ruby red bows, gas lanterns lighting the paths, and the soft hue of candles glowing through the windows. MIRROR LAKE INN LEAPS FROM THE PAGES OF A CHRISTMAS CAROL

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