Every Lake
Lake George
The Queen of American Lakes: 32 miles, roughly 170 islands, and a Millionaires' Row that is an actual street.
- 33 ft · shore
- 65 ft
- 98 ft
- 131 ft
- 163 ft
- 196 ft · bottom
About Lake George
Thomas Jefferson called it "without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw," and he was not a man given to exaggeration. Lake George runs 32 miles north through the Adirondacks between steep, wooded ridges, spring-fed and clear, narrowing at The Narrows where the islands cluster so thickly you can paddle between them all afternoon.
It was a war road before it was a resort. Fort William Henry stood at the south end during the French and Indian War; its fall in 1757 is the event at the center of The Last of the Mohicans. Ticonderoga guarded the north. By the Gilded Age the forts were ruins and the shore was hotels and great camps — Bolton Landing's Millionaires' Row, the Sagamore on its island, steamboats calling at every dock.
Today the village at the south end is a boardwalk summer and the lake itself is one of the best-protected in the East, with a water quality that the year-round residents guard fiercely.
- Lake George village, Bolton Landing, Hague, Ticonderoga
- Route 9N along the west shore
- The Narrows and its islands at 24" and 30"
Turn it in your hands
Live 3D of the actual cut files — drag to orbit, pinch to zoom. Every road you see is engraved on the real thing.
