Venues
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World-Class Venues
As host to the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympic Games, Lake Placid built and maintained Olympic winter venues for forty years. Currently, many of the Olympic venues are receiving modernization in anticipation of the World University Games in January 2023. The exceptional venues that our student-athletes train and compete at include:
- Whiteface Mountain, the greatest vertical drop in the East is ten minutes from the Northwood School campus
- New refrigerated inrun tracks at the Lake Placid Ski Jumping Complex, allowing for student-athletes e to train on iced tracks in conditions up to 50 degrees – even on warm winter days, competition, and training sessions will continue as planned.
- The nordic center at Mt. Van Hoevenberg has the best snowmaking in all of North America with its newly expanded snowmaking abilities. The venue can cover 5km of trails in 3-4 days – allowing for training to begin as early as October.
- Take advantage of the new biathlon stadium at Mt. Van Hoevenberg which includes a 30-row biathlon shooting range – making the venue equipped to host the world’s largest biathlon and cross-country ski races in the world.
Athletes from all over the world come to these venues to train and compete providing the opportunity for our student-athletes to train alongside development and national teams members like the US Biathlon Association (USBA), USA Nordic, and the US Ski Team.
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