LAKE PLACID – A historic bike trail similar to the village’s historic walking tour may be coming to the village, thanks to an idea from a pair of local business owners.

Karen and Brian Delaney of High Peaks Cyclery have proposed the idea of a bike trail to both Dean Dietrich and the Lake Placid/North Elba Community Development Commission and the Lake Placid Business Association. Like the 4-mile historic walking tour trail, the bike trail would stop at historical points of interest in and around the town, the Delaneys said.

Karen Delaney said she envisions the bike trail to consist of a guided 16 to 20-mile loop, and she and her husband mentioned possible stops including the former site of the Lake Placid Club, the Olympic ski jumps, the Olympic Center, the train station and the John Brown Farm State Historic Site. The Delaneys also mentioned the possibility of the trail course encompassing other loops, including around Mirror Lake and a loop on Wilmington Road and River Road.

“Maybe 10 things on the trail of historical interest to the town,” Brian Delaney said. “It’s an idea that’s springing up.”

The Delaneys said the idea for the tour came from their own experiences with walking and biking tours in places like Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Williamsburg, Virgina, and Montreal, and their own admiration for the village’s historic walking tour.

Karen Delaney said in the past she has put together impromptu biking tours for interested customers at High Peaks Cyclery.

The walking tour is put on by the Lake Placid-North Elba Historical Society and features 36 points of interest, all featured in an annotated and color-coded map that describes the history of each stop.

Dietrich said he supports the idea and plans to present it at the next historical society board meeting. Dietrich also serves as a trustee on the board.

Dietrich said the walking tour’s pamphlet was paid for by the historical society, and he plans to ask the historical society about financing this project.

Dietrich also mentioned a possible stop on the bike trail, a location called Stagecoach Rock on Route 73 near the Cascade Mountain trailhead where there is an etching of a stagecoach on a rock that once signaled the meeting place of stagecoaches traveling between Keene and North Elba.

“We have to look at different locations that would be out of town a little bit, and figure out a good route,” Dietrich said. “Then it would be up to the Delaneys to tell us that’s a good ride or that road is no good.”