These Are the Best Boutique Hotels in the Adirondacks

Tucked off of Route 9 next to the gorgeous Schroon Lake, this boutique hotel and lodge is the perfect place for some serious nature time. A small collection of buildings, headed by a Main Lodge, welcome you to a large property with a long history of hospitality. The original property, the Brown Swan Lodge, has undergone a series of additions, renovations and reinventions over the years. One small, sweet 1919 clapboard building has grown tremendously into the welcoming encampment you find today. The original focus of the resort has also… > Read Our Full Review

Brought to us by our hip friends at Lark Hotels, the Bluebird hotel line comprises modern North Eastern properties nicely situated in many of the region’s most charming small towns. Frequently found within the top boutique offerings in Maine, Vermont, and Massachusetts, they offer modern luxury with a lot of style. This one, Bluebird Lake Placid, is on the newer side, and still finding its legs. Private-entrance rooms and suites stretch around a central parking area, with an angular, light wood lobby building on the far side. In this case,… > Read Our Full Review

This Lake Placid property is an excellent new addition to the Adirondacks’, and Upstate NY’s, boutique hotel collection. It’s a chic, nature-forward accommodation from a trio of visionary friends that formed Eastwind Hotels. The owners are frequently there to greet guests on arrival, either in Lake Placid or at one of their gorgeous Catskills hotels. All locations share the same dark blue clapboard siding and simple roadside signage. It’s a cute touch that solidifies the branding while making the group feel like a collection of homes rather than a hotel… > Read Our Full Review

A true appreciation of this lodge style Lake Placid boutique hotel depends almost entirely on your feelings about taxidermy. If you’re dead against, you might not enjoy the space as much as it deserves. If you’re anywhere else on the spectrum, it’s worth getting used to. And anyone who shares decor sensibilities with Beauty and the Beast’s Gaston should book The Whiteface Lodge immediately. The architecture is the real star, a stunning rustic structure of sturdy wood beams supporting high ceilings and that worn silkiness of wood that’s been treated… > Read Our Full Review

A community like Lake Placid NY, with a small town and long history, remembers its own. The Grand Adirondack Hotel occupies a near century-old hotel building that has long been part of the community. The stately brick stands tall in the center of town, overlooking Mirror Lake, at the pulse of Lake Placid’s comings and goings for generations. Now part of Marriott’s Tribute Portfolio, the current iteration of the hotel benefits greatly from the guaranteed luxuries the brand provides, though it has lost a bit of the local charm. Still,… > Read Our Full Review