Lake Placid isn't just for winter lovers anymore

Perhaps it's the fresh-baked cookie that's offered to guests as they check into the Mirror Lake Inn, the village's crown jewel of lodging. Or perhaps it's how just about every quaint store and restaurant in town has some sort of reminder that miracles can, and have, happened there.

Either way, it doesn't take long upon arriving in Lake Placid to realize there's something unique about the place.

Known for decades as a winter wonderland and where the US Olympic hockey team stunned the unbeatable Russians in 1980 in perhaps the most-celebrated sporting event ever, Lake Placid is not just for snowy fun anymore. The vacation haven in the Adirondack Mountains is a town for all seasons now, though the sights this time of year are nothing short of Rockwellian.