A House for a Golf Group in Lake Placid
If there are a dozen or so of you coming to Lake Placid for golf, the home we rent here is The Adirondack House: six bedrooms, sleeps fourteen, a turn-of-the-century Colonial Revival on a private one-acre lot about two hundred meters off Main Street, fully renovated in 2021. That's the short answer. The longer one is about why a single house beats a block of rooms when your group's day runs tee time, lunch, second tee time, and a long dinner that nobody wants to end at a hotel bar.
Why one house, not six hotel rooms
Golf trips have a shape. Everyone's up at the same hour, everyone needs coffee at once, and the good part of the day happens afterwards, when the scorecards come out and the argument starts. Split across hotel rooms, that evening never quite happens. In a full home it happens in the kitchen whether you plan it or not.
Tucked Away Vacations rents a standalone private home in Lake Placid rather than a unit in a complex, which in practice means the whole building is yours: the driveway, the yard, the kitchen at eleven at night. At The Adirondack House the dining room seats ten or more at one table, which is the number that actually matters for a group trip. A house that sleeps fourteen but feeds six in shifts is a different trip entirely.
The sleeping arithmetic, honestly
Six bedrooms, nine beds, fourteen people at full occupancy, and five bathrooms (four full, one half). The bed mix is one King, four Queens, two Twins, one Full, plus a queen sofa bed in the sunroom office. Every bedroom has a new mattress and a flat-screen TV, which matters more than it sounds when four people are sharing a bathroom wall and two of them want the Masters on at breakfast.
Work out your real number before you book. Fourteen only works if people are comfortable pairing up and someone takes the sofa bed. Ten or twelve adults who each want their own bed is the configuration this house handles beautifully, with the Coyote Cut Room upstairs (a Queen and two Twins) absorbing whoever drew the short straw. The one-acre lot and free on-site parking for multiple vehicles also solve a problem golf groups rarely think about until they arrive in three cars with clubs in every trunk.
Where the group actually ends up: the basement
The renovated basement rec room has ping pong, a poker table, darts, movies, board games, and a TV, and in our experience it's where the whole group migrates after dinner. One guest, Danny, put it plainly in a review: "Spacious inside and out. Great yard and plenty of parking... Great big table for everyone to sit at. Darts. Ping pong. Couldn't ask for anything more."
Upstairs, the living room has a wood-burning central fireplace, original hardwood floors, and leather furniture, which is the right room for an October evening after a cold round. The kitchen was built for cooking with a crowd: granite counters, custom cabinets, a gourmet knife set, a wine bar with a wine cooler, wine glasses, an ice maker. There's a BBQ and multiple patio and deck spaces outside, and a breakfast nook off the kitchen that seats four, useful when two of you are up at six for an early tee time and the rest of the house isn't.
The golf, and the geography
Lake Placid's courses are genuinely old, and they're close together, which is the real argument for basing yourself in the village rather than at any one club. Craig Wood Golf Course sits on Country Club Lane, cut into the mountains and run by the Town of North Elba; it's a par 72 at around 6,550 yards and carries the name of a Lake Placid native who won majors. The Lake Placid Club courses are on Morningside Drive: the Links Course is a par-71 at a little over 7,000 yards, with bunker-heavy fairways, native fescue, and big rolling greens in the Scottish mould, and the Mountain Course runs a touch under 6,300. Whiteface Club & Resort's course is out on Whiteface Inn Lane along the shore of Lake Placid itself, one of the oldest continuously operating courses in the country according to the USGA, rebuilt into eighteen holes in the thirties.
The distances between them are small. Craig Wood to the Lake Placid Club courses is a couple and a half miles; Craig Wood to Whiteface Club is around five. Saranac Inn Golf and Country Club, which Golf Digest has called the best course in the Adirondacks, is roughly a twenty-five-minute drive out of town. Saranac Lake Golf Club is also on the regional circuit.
Two things to handle yourself: call each club directly about tee times and group rates, and check Whiteface Club's operating status for your season before you build an itinerary around it. Course schedules in the Adirondacks move, and a club's own staff will tell you more in one phone call than any website will.
A two-minute walk changes the evening
The house sits about two hundred meters from Main Street. You can walk to dinner, to the Olympic Center, or down to the Mirror Lake shoreline without anyone being the designated driver, which for a group that has spent the day on three courses is not a small thing. The Mirror Lake public beach is about six minutes by car, Whiteface Mountain is under twenty minutes out, and High Falls Gorge is roughly thirteen minutes away if the non-golfers in your party want a morning that doesn't involve a scorecard.
The Adirondacks reward a shoulder-season golf trip. September and early October bring the foliage down the slopes above the village, and the same house that works for a summer group works just as well then, with the fireplace earning its keep. The house also gets booked for Whiteface ski weeks, Ironman training groups, and Olympic-venue weekends, so the calendar fills from several directions at once.
What's historic about the house itself
This is the part that surprises people who booked it purely on bedroom count. The house stands on land once owned by the Stevens brothers, Lake Placid's first hoteliers, and the maple floors were laid by George Stevens himself. Roman Doric columns, hand-carved beams in the living room ceiling, a servants' bell call system still in place, a larder off the kitchen, built-ins throughout. The 2021 renovation left all of it alone and added everything a modern group needs around it. If you're coming to play courses laid out a century ago, there's a certain rightness to sleeping in a house from the same era that hasn't been gutted.
Each bedroom has its own name. The Wilmington Room is the primary suite, with a King, a decorative stone fireplace, and big windows. The Victoria and Brookside Rooms both have Queens and mix vintage finishes with modern furniture. The Empire Room is small and light-filled. There's also a sun-filled office with high-speed WiFi, in case someone on the trip has a Monday morning that follows them north.
Before you book
A few things to settle with us directly, because they change by season and by group:
Dates and rates. Availability, nightly pricing, and any minimum-stay rules for your window.
Your real headcount and bed plan. Tell us who's sharing and who isn't, and we'll tell you honestly whether the configuration works.
Vehicles. Parking is free and on-site, but let us know how many cars so we can confirm it before you arrive.
Clubs and gear. Ask us about where to keep bags between rounds rather than assuming.
Pets. The house doesn't take them.
Check-in is self-service with a keypad, which suits groups arriving at staggered hours from three different states.
Ask us
The Adirondack House is listed in Lake Placid as a single-family residence: six bedrooms, sleeps fourteen, with a full kitchen, a dining table for the whole group, a game room with a ping pong table, a fireplace, mountain views, a BBQ area, a garden and patio, free parking, and a washer and dryer. Message Tucked Away Vacations with your dates and your headcount, and ask us anything about the village while you're at it. We know this town's rhythms and we'll tell you where to eat and when the courses are busiest.