Flights & getting there

Trailways (www.trailwaysny.com) serves Lake Placid. Amtrak (www.amtrak.com) runs once a day to Westport, with a bus connection to Lake Placid ($94, seven hours).

Adirondack Regional Airport, 17 miles northwest near Saranac Lake, has connections via Cape Air (www.capeair.com) to Boston.