Lake Placid 1932 1980 Olympic ski jumps
— — two towers waiting for the next jumper.
Not only on a wall.
“The 90-metre and 120-metre ski jumps rise above the MacKenzie-Intervale meadow, a few miles south of Lake Placid village. The village hosted the Winter Olympics in 1932 and again in 1980, and the towers in their current form were built for the 1980 Games. The taller of the two, K-120, stands about twenty-six stories from base to in-run. A glass elevator lifts visitors up the back of the structure in summer, and freestyle skiers train year-round into a splash pool at the base. The site is run by the Olympic Regional Development Authority.
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The Olympic Jumping Complex sits in the MacKenzie-Intervale, about two miles south of Lake Placid village, Essex County, New York, inside the six-million-acre Adirondack Park. Lake Placid hosted the Winter Olympics twice — first in 1932 and again in 1980 — and is one of only three places in the world to have done so. The current towers were built for the 1980 Games at K-90 and K-120 hill sizes. The complex is owned and operated by the New York State Olympic Regional Development Authority, the same agency that runs the bobsled track at Mount Van Hoevenberg and the alpine venues at Whiteface.
The two towers were modernized through the 2022–2023 seasons as part of a major Legacy Sites renovation, with new in-run tracks, replaced steel, and a redesigned base lodge. K-120, the taller tower, rises roughly twenty-six stories from the meadow to the top of the in-run platform and is visible from much of the south approach to Lake Placid on State Route 73. A glass-walled elevator runs up the back of the tower to a public observation deck. The freestyle aerials training centre at the base uses a water-pool landing, so summer visitors can watch jumpers train without snow on the hill.
The complex is open most of the year, with timed tickets through the Olympic Regional Development Authority. The standard Sky Ride combines a chondola lift partway up the hill with the glass elevator to the top of K-120, weather permitting. From the observation deck the High Peaks ridge stacks south — Algonquin and the MacIntyre Range — and Lake Placid village sits to the north. Summer afternoons typically bring aerial training sessions into the splash pool, scheduled by the U.S. freestyle team and usually posted on the ORDA site the day-of. High winds close the upper deck without notice.