A quieter, more local town than Lake Placid, ten minutes up the road. Saranac Lake was a famous tuberculosis cure town in the late 1800s. Dr. Edward Trudeau opened America’s first outdoor TB sanitarium here in 1885, and the town’s “cure cottages” were built specifically so patients could rest in the cold Adirondack air on screened porches. Robert Louis Stevenson spent the winter of 1887-88 here being treated. The town today still has the same Main Street, slower pace, and a board game store worth the drive on its own.
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