Atlas and Ela McEntee, of Rhode Island, enjoy a run on the Lake Placid Toboggan Chute on Friday, Feb. 24, sliding down to the Mirror Lake ice. They were in town for some skiing and a hockey tournament. It was their first time in Lake Placid and their first time tobogganing. (News photo — Andy Flynn)

LAKE PLACID — Now that winter weather has set in, with cold and snow, residents and visitors have taken to the ice of Mirror Lake for some fun.

The two dogsled providers have been busy at opposite ends of Main Street — one behind Brewster Park and one behind the Golden Arrow Lakeside Resort. People have been skating and playing pond hockey pickup games near the beach house, cross-country skiing and snowshoeing on the lake, and skating or walking along the skate path.

“We will continue to maintain skating areas near the beach and also have been able to open up a walking/skating loop around the perimeter of the lake,” North Elba Park District Manager Butch Martin said on Monday, Feb. 27.

Martin asks people playing on the lake who approach a machine clearing snow to step aside and allow the town employees to do their work.

Tobogganing has also returned to Mirror Lake.

Atlas and Ela McEntee, of Rhode Island, enjoy a run on the Lake Placid Toboggan Chute on Friday, Feb. 24, sliding down to the Mirror Lake ice. They were in town for some skiing and a hockey tournament. It was their first time in Lake Placid and their first time tobogganing. (News photo — Andy Flynn)

After more than two weeks of unseasonably warm weather, which melted the ice on the two slides at the Lake Placid Toboggan Chute, North Elba Park District employees reopened the popular attraction on Wednesday, Feb. 22, during the busy Presidents’ Week holiday. It had only been open one day this winter prior to that — on Feb. 5. The chute remained open through Sunday, and workers took a two-day break for maintenance before opening it again on Wednesday, March 1.

The Toboggan Chute is expected to be open through Sunday, March 5. The tentative hours are from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday; noon to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday; and noon to 3 p.m. Sunday.

Toboggan Chute hours can be found on the town of North Elba’s Facebook page and website, northelba.villageoflakeplacid.ny.gov.

Visitors wait in line to take a ride on the Lake Placid Toboggan Chute at Mirror Lake on Friday, Feb. 24. (News photo — Andy Flynn)

Visitors enjoy the Lake Placid Toboggan Chute at Mirror Lake on Feb. 24, 2023. (News photo — Andy Flynn)

Visitors enjoy the Lake Placid Toboggan Chute at Mirror Lake on Friday, Feb. 24. (News photo — Andy Flynn)

A girl skates on Mirror Lake on Friday, Feb. 24 near the Lake Placid Toboggan Chute and a pond hockey game. (News photo — Andy Flynn)