Lake Placid, New York. Site of the famous Miracle on Ice hockey game in 1980, the Olympic Center houses four ice surfaces, convention space and the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympic Museum.
Olympic Regional Development Authority
Olympic Regional Development Authority
2024-06-26
The Olympic Regional Development Authority in Lake Placid, New York operates the venues used during the 1980 Winter Olympics. Included is Whiteface for skiing, snowboarding and mountain biking; the Verizon Sports Complex for bobsled, luge, skeleton, cross country skiing, biathlon and mountain biking as well as bobsled rides and luge rocket rides for the public; the Olympic Ski Jumping Complex for Nordic jumping and freestyle aerial skiing; and the Olympic Center with four indoor ice sheets including the famous 1980 Rink Herb Brooks Arena, site of the Miracle on Ice; and the outdoor skating oval where Eric Heiden captured five gold medals in 1980. ORDA also operates Gore Mountain in North Creek, N.Y.