2026 LakeGeorge.com Fab Five Winners: Best Thing To Do On The Lake
Time spent on the water is at the heart of the Lake George experience. The 2026 LakeGeorge.com Fab Five results, shaped by community voting, highlight businesses offering unforgettable water-based activities. This category recognizes everything from kayaking and paddleboarding to boating, parasailing, and fishing adventures.
1. Original Tiki Tours
Original Tiki Tours claims the top spot by providing a highly social, festive cruising experience right out of the village dock basin. Groups can step aboard these unique, thatched-roof floating tiki barges to enjoy a relaxing, captain-led charter complete with Bluetooth sound systems and bring-your-own beverage coolers as they glide along the shoreline.
2. Freedom Boat Club at Queen Boat Co. Marina
Freedom Boat Club delivers an accessible alternative to vessel ownership operating out of its primary marina facility on Dunham's Bay. Members enjoy seamless, hassle-free lake access with a massive fleet of premium pontoons, center consoles, and bowriders, allowing them to reserve a vessel, step straight aboard at the dock, and immediately head out into the southern basin.
3. ADK Boat Tours
ADK Boat Tours offers private, customized lake charters departing for the general public from Diamond Point and for resort guests from Bolton Landing. Captained by experienced local guides, their fleet of luxury sport boats and wake vessels treats small groups to highly personalized excursions centered around tubing, waterskiing, historic sightseeing, and swimming in hidden mountain bays.
4. Parasailing Adventures
Parasailing Adventures injects high-flying thrill into the waterfront rankings from its central base at the village docks. Adventurers can buckle up into single, tandem, or triple harnesses to be gently launched directly off the flight deck of a specialized boat, soaring hundreds of feet above the water for an unmatched, birds-eye panoramic view of the lake basin and surrounding peaks.
5. Lake George Kayak Co.
Lake George Kayak Co. rounds out the top five from its peaceful, waterfront outfitter property in Bolton Landing. The premier paddling center specializes in self-guided exploration, offering top-tier rentals of premium touring kayaks, canoes, and stand-up paddleboards that let outdoor enthusiasts navigate the quiet islands, pristine bays, and scenic shorelines at their own pace.
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