Vacation in Lake George NY

Enjoy your vacation in Lake George NY in the beautiful Adirondack Mountains of New York State, USA. This has been a holiday vacation resort spot for New York City residents and beyond for years. Here you will find some of the best lodging which includes bed and breakfasts (bbs) lodges, romantic Lake George NY resort hotel and motel accommodations, vacation rentals, apartments and condos to stay at during your holiday family vacation. Also, if you would like to purchase a home here there is quality Real Estate to purchase.

You can enjoy fine dining at some of the local restaurants. and after take a sip at a microbrewery.

Experience some of the fun activities and attractions that families, couples and singles enjoy doing here including touring museums where vacationers can learn more about the history of this part of New York. Nearby you can find more museums in Ticonderoga and North Creek. From here you are an hour drive from the popular Adirondack Museum and The Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks- Wildcenter where you will learn the human history at the first and the natural history of this New York state park at the other.

Relax while you have dinner and watch a play at the Lake George Dinner Theater

Listen to summer pops concerts.

Catch a movie at one of the cinemas.

View fine art prints, photos and paintings at local art galleries.

Enjoy a steamboat ride on the Lake and ride the Lac Du Saint Sacrament-which has fine dining for lunch or eat a nice Sunday Buffet, perhaps catch a steamboat The Minnie-Ha-Ha or take the cruise ship The Mohican.

Local families and travelers like to go shopping at the outlet centers such as the Adirondack outlet mall, Mountain View outlet or Lake George NY plaza factory stores, also there are antique shops, farmers and flea markets to shop at.

This is one of the best places for festivals. There’s the Lake George Summer festival-4th weekend in June.

Ride your motorcycle to the Americade Motorcycle Rally in June. At the rally listen to bands at the concerts, watch parades, see lots of motor bikes and experience other outdoor activities.

The Lake George volunteer fireman’s crafts festival with 125 vendors at Shepard Park the 4th weekend in August. Call 518-668-2688 for details.

There’s the Bolton Landing Arts and Crafts festival. Call 518-644-3831 for details.

The Warren County fair is held in August.

Adirondack Folk Music festival is held in nearby Schroon Lake in August.

You may want to catch a great yearly musical event by the lake at Shepard Park in September, The Lake George Jazz Festival concert which is a popular attraction. By the way, Shepard Park also has swimming, a lakefront walkway and more live music throughout the summer and fall.

In September dance the weekend away at the Contra, English Country and swing dance weekend at the Silver Bay YWCA conference Center . www.danceflurry.org/new/silverbay.html or call 518-489-9066 before 10 PM.

See plentiful and colorful hot air balloons at the Adirondack Balloon Festival in Queensbury at the Beginning of fall.

Enjoy bowling, test your golfing skills at one of the nearby 18 Hole golf courses, try some mountain biking, picnicking, hiking one of the nature trails, perhaps visit a ranch and go horseback riding down one of the scenic nature trails through an area forest.

If rock climbing is your hobby then you may want to climb one of the nearby mountains, walk by fast flowing streams of spring in this state park, do you need a break from walking then catch a ride on a trolley,

Would you like to try some Whitewater rafting in the Hudson River ? How about tubing down a river?

Rough it by camping at one of the campgrounds or RV parks or in the forest.

This state park is a great spot for birding since you can see a variety of birds here.

One of the most popular natural attractions is viewing the fall foliage throughout the Adirondack Mountains . Be sure to bring your digital camera so you can take some pictures of the fall colors during your site seeing travels. This is a great way to improve your photography hobby.

You may want to hire an Adirondack guide as your travel guide to show you through the area. He or she can show you the best places to fish or hike, best mountains to climb and other good places to see in the great outdoors.

Perhaps they can help you find the best place to take nature pictures so you will have some beautiful nature landscape images to take home and share with family and friends who would like to see your photo gallery of vacation pictures.

Perhaps charter a boat. Picture yourself fly fishing or rod and reel fishing and catching some Atlantic salmon, Bass, Sunfish or Lake Trout at a lake or by a river.

Another fun activity is to soar in an airplane or float on a breeze in a balloon over the lake.

During your winter holidays enjoy some winter sports like Ice fishing, Nordic or cross country skiing, during your skiing holiday and vacation enjoy some downhill, Alpine skiing at nearby Gore Mountain as winter turns into spring you can continue skiing.

Some of the fun outdoor spring and summer activities in Warren County you can enjoy include sliding down one of the water slides at one of the fun parks nearby, swimming, sun bathing, sports activities like boating, sailing, rent and ride a bike or a kayak, relax while canoeing down a river, roller skating. This is also a great spot for parasailing, wake boarding and water skiing.

The resorts are good places to have a wedding. A great spot for wedding photography since the professional photographer can include beautiful nature scenes in the background of the wedding pictures. Also, resorts are one of the best places for business conference meetings and trainings since they have the facilities and lodging accommodations for these events.

Families and couples enjoy picnicking at Fort George and Usher Park.

Walk on the Million dollar Beach . (It was given that name many years ago. The beach is worth several times that, now.)

See a variety of boats at the Lake George NY boat show in September at the Lake George Forum.

Take a leisurely Lake George NY vacation carriage ride and experience a scenic tour of the area.

Add spice to life and take a romantic Adirondack train ride through this beautiful mountainous region of New York State and view the beautiful nature landscapes during your holiday travels.

Walk in the footsteps of history at the historic attraction Lake George NY Battlefield Park on Beach Road. If you listen carefully you may hear the battles that occurred here many years ago.

Drive to Prospect Mountain up the Veterans Memorial highway which is a great spot to see scenic nature views of the lake.

Enjoy the wax figures at the House of Frankenstein wax museum. Or enjoy a good scare at Dr. Morbid’s Haunted House.

Try your baseball skills at one of the batting cages in the area. Adults and children enjoy miniature golf at Pirates Cove-Adventure golf in nearby Queensbury, New York on Route 9. Children and adults also enjoy the Arcades games.

In Warrensburg, NY during the fall you and your family can shop and find all types of treasures at the “the world’s largest garage sale”. Then in the evening you can stay at one of the relaxing and romantic Warrensburg bed and breakfasts. In nearby Glens Falls, NY listen to one of the Glens Falls Symphony orchestra concerts. Then the next day you may want to check out one of the Glens Falls Museums .

There is so much to do here you may want to come back for another Lake George vacation.

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