On 08 Feb 2010 in rec.travel.usa-canada, blackbat wrote:

Are there any particular areas of the two lakes that you'd recommend?

This comes back to what you're interested in. Both areas are 'tourist'
areas, so have their share of souvenir shops, etc. You'll find theater,
concerts and the like in both.

Lake George has an amusement park (http://www.sixflags.com/greatEscape/);
Fort Ticonderoga (http://www.fort-ticonderoga.org/) is a US Revolutionary
War fort not far away. If you're there in August and like horse racing,
Lake George is not far from Saratoga Springs, which has a thoroughbred
meet in August (http://www.saratogaracetrack.com/). Also in August at
Saratoga, the Philadelphia Orchestra has a summer residency at Saratoga
Performing Arts Center (known as SPAC) (http://www.spac.org/)

Placid has the Olympic venues. There's a natural history museum nearby
(http://www.wildcenter.org/).

If you like the historic stuff, this year is the 250th anniversary
commemoration of the 'French and Indian War' (the North American fallout
of the Seven Years War between the United Kingdom and France, and there
will be reenactments in the area. http://www.fiw250.org/

So what's involved - is it a drive through or park the car and visit
a Customs building...?

99% of the time it's drive through. Very occasionally, you'll be asked
to pull over and have your vehicle checked.

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