Governor Andrew M. Cuomo recently announced the 38th annual Empire State Winter Games will kick off on Thursday, Feb. 1 and will run until Sunday, Feb. 4 in Lake Placid. More than 2,500 participants will compete in 17 different sports during the three-day multi-sport festival.
“The North Country is home to world-class winter sports and this February, New York welcomes thousands of athletes and winter sports enthusiasts to enjoy the 38th Empire State Winter Games,” Governor Cuomo said. “I encourage families from near and far to watch the games and enjoy all that the North Country has to offer.”
This multi-sport destination festival gives amateur athletes the opportunity to compete in world-class Olympic venues in more than 30 events. The Games will kick off with an inaugural Torch Relay departing from New York City.
The 2018 Empire State Winter Games includes an expanded outdoor village located on Lake Placid’s Main Street. The Village will host the ESWG cauldron, a Jumbotron with livestreaming, ESWG television event coverage, live music, spectator speed tubing, and the 2018 ESWG winter bike and NorX competitions. One of 2018’s new events, the inaugural Rail Jam competition, will take place at Malone’s Titus Mountain. The Village will also feature samples of soups and chili prepared by local chefs for Taste of the Games.
Outdoor sporting events will be held at the Saranac Lake Civic Center, and Nordic and alpine skiing will be held at Dewey Mountain and Mount Pisgah in Saranac Lake. Additionally, Paul Smith’s College’s Visitors Interpretive Center will host snowshoe-racing events.
For more information about the 38th Empire State Winter Games, visit www.empirestatewintergames.com/.
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