Gondola · Lake Placid, United States
Skyride, Lake Placid
Skyride is a gondola near Lake Placid, United States. It climbs 64 m over 187 m, from 515 m to 579 m above sea level. Between its 1 pylon, the cable runs up to about 30 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
1/100 · Gentle
By the numbers, Skyride is scarier than 1% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 114 of 121 in the United States.
- Highest above the ground: about 30 m, as high as a 10-storey building, 87 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 100 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 0°.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Skyride is near Lake Placid, United States, at 515 m above sea level (44.25649° N, 73.96380° W). From there it runs 187 m up to the top station at 579 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
Nearby lines
- Cloudsplitter Gondola gondola · 13.0 km away · rises 742 m
Pylon heights are estimated (30 m), so the height above ground is approximate. Terrain: Copernicus GLO-30, 30 m. Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. Data as of 2026-10-31.