The progress at One Main Park in Lake Placid is seen Friday from the deck at High Peaks Resort. Construction crews have reworked the Saranac Avenue, Main Street and Mirror Lake Drive intersection and are installing new bioretention basins in the park to help filter stormwater runoff before it enters Mirror Lake. In the spaces between the sidewalks, there’s expected to be some greenery and landscaping. Main Street construction will pause on Monday for Memorial Day, continue through the end of June, and pause again for the peak summer tourism season in July and August. (Enterprise photo — Elizabeth Izzo)

LAKE PLACID — The Memorial Day weekend usually kicks off of the peak summer hiking season in the Adirondacks. Lake Placid is almost always busy on this three-day weekend, but there are a few indicators pointing to an unusually busy weekend here.

Pedestrian traffic had already begun to pick up along Main Street on Friday, and many local hotels, hostels and vacation rentals are seeing higher-than-normal occupancy or are fully booked this weekend.

Mirror Lake Inn spokesman Sandy Caligore said bookings at the historic Lake Placid hotel are higher this weekend than they were at this time before the coronavirus pandemic.

“We’re definitely running stronger this Memorial weekend than (2017, 2018 and 2019),” Caligore said Friday.

The Mirror Lake Inn was closed between the middle of March until late June last year because of the pandemic. Owners Ed and Lisa Weibrecht made the decision to close the hotel to help “flatten the curve” in a time when COVID-19 infections were just about to skyrocket across the state.

Operations at Lake Placid’s TMax-n-Topo’s Hostel are still being limited by the coronavirus pandemic. Capacity at the hostel is limited because multiple different parties can’t be booked in common rooms, per state Health Department guidelines.

TMax-n-Topo’s owner David Gomlak said the hostel is sold out on Saturday and Sunday, though the total occupancy is much lower than normal because of the state Health Department requirements. Gomlak said the hostel didn’t accept any one-person reservations this weekend.

“It’s definitely a busy weekend,” he said. “But I’m sure we could’ve fit more people in.”

On vacation rental site Airbnb, as of Friday afternoon, there was just one house in Lake Placid listed as still available for rent on Saturday night. There were five Lake Placid rentals listed as still available for rent on Sunday night.

On VRBO, there was zero rentals available for rent in Lake Placid on Saturday night and a handful of rentals available for Sunday night. There are hundreds of registered vacation rentals in Lake Placid.

At the Adirondack Mountain Reserve parking lot in St. Huberts, where AMR and the state Department of Environmental Conservation have launched a pilot trailhead parking reservation system, all 70 parking spaces are fully booked for the holiday weekend, according to AMR spokesman Josh Poupore. Some spaces may open up if people end up canceling.

This season, in general, is shaping up to be a busy one for camping. Reservations at campgrounds operated by the DEC are higher than usual.

As of Monday, DEC campgrounds had a total of 83,689 reservations booked so far this season, a 28% increase from all reservations last season, according to the DEC. The DEC’s 56 campgrounds and day use areas opened for the season on May 21.