Fantastic hiking. Amazing small lakes or, if you prefer, big ponds (my husband and I have a 23 year old dispute).
http://www.whitefaceregion.com/
My husbands family owned a motel there. (hahaha! I think this is the era that they owned it!)
They still owned it during the 1980 Olympics and the NBC "talent" stayed there. They were mostly rude outrageous drunks (barfing in the restaurant, peeing their pants, putting cigarettes out on the carpet...) who harassed his sisters unrelentingly.
My husband says that he could ski on White Face mountain all day for $2-$3 (or free, off trail). After the Olympics, the price quintupled and security increased to catch and arrest rogue skiers.
His dad was friends with Art Flick and they'd stock the streams together.
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