LAKE PLACID, N.Y.-
This photo from the collection of the Lake Placid Winter Olympic Museum shows a team of dogs pulling a sled with two people aboard across Mirror Lake in the 1930s.
Lake Placid is located in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York. It was the site of the first winter Olympics ever to be held in the United States in 1932; the Olympics returned to the town again in 1980.
The town continues to attract winter vacationers who are drawn there for the skiing, both downhill and cross-country, and other winter sports, including ice skating.
While there is a regular ice skating rink, you can also skate on the lake once it’s frozen, and you can also still take a ride on an old-fashioned sled pulled across the lake’s frozen ice by a team of hardy, energetic dogs.
