Lake George, New York · Since 2012
Custom docks, boathouses, boat lifts and shoreline work across all 32 miles of Lake George — designed around ice, permitted properly, and built to still be standing in thirty years. Then we carry the same care up the hill to your house.
One call, one team
Most waterfront owners end up managing three contractors: one who will go in the water, one who will not, and one who is booked until August. We built the company so you only need the one.
Lake George Docks designs, permits and builds the structures that sit in and over the water — timber cribs, docks, boathouses, lifts and shorelines — and runs a full home services division for everything above the bank. Same crew standard. Same point of contact. One schedule for a season that is genuinely short.
Lake George Docks is a waterfront construction and home services company based in Lake George, New York. We design, permit and build custom docks, boathouses, boat lifts, timber cribs and shoreline structures across the Lake George basin, and we repair the damage the lake does to them — particularly winter ice damage. Alongside that we run a home services division covering painting, doors and windows, kitchens and baths, outdoor kitchens, additions and rental turnover. We have worked this lake for over a decade, we are an authorized RGC Marine boat lift installer and a TimberTech Silver Pro partner, and we answer emergency calls year-round.
Waterfront
Design, permitting, construction and repair for the structures that make a Lake George property usable — engineered for ice expansion, seasonal drawdown and open-water exposure.
Crib, pile and floating docks designed around your depth, exposure and shoreline — then permitted and built to survive Lake George winters.
New boathouses designed inside APA and LGPC limits, plus restoration of the historic structures that give this lake its character.
Authorized RGC Marine sales and installation, plus service, repair and seasonal commissioning for lifts already on your dock.
New and rebuilt timber cribs, piling work, retaining structures and shoreline protection — the marine construction most contractors won't take on.
Ice and storm damage, settled cribs, rotted decking and failed hardware — repaired properly, not patched until next spring.
LGPC, APA, DEC and town approvals — designed to the rules from the outset and filed by people who deal with these offices constantly.
Why one provider
The dock, the boathouse, the shoreline and the house are one system on a lakefront property. Splitting them across contractors is where projects go sideways.
You call one number about the dock, the boathouse, the deck and the kitchen. Nobody gets to blame the other trade.
Dock, stairs, shoreline and deck get designed together, so levels, materials and drainage actually line up.
We design inside LGPC and APA limits from the first sketch, so approvals are a formality rather than a fight.
Lake George gives you a narrow window. One schedule beats three contractors negotiating for the same weeks.
Why Lake George owners choose us
There is no shortage of contractors who will build you a deck. There are very few who will get into Lake George in November to rebuild the cribs under your boathouse.
That is the work that decides whether everything above it survives — and it is the reason homeowners find us. Timber cribs set through the ice. Pilings driven where the bottom turns to ledge. Structures jacked, supported and put back true. Barge access to shorelines with no road to them.
For over a decade, Lake George Docks, LLC has been building quality docks and boathouses in the Lake George region. From building a new dock to repairing the dock you already love, we execute each project with a focus on providing exceptional service with impeccable results.
Selected projects
Every photograph on this site is our own work on this lake. Drag or use the arrows to scroll through.
Timber crib and stone fill, engineered to resist ice through mass rather than strength — the traditional Lake George answer for a rock bottom.
The cribs came first. Jacked, re-stoned and set true before a single shingle was touched above.
Dry weight plus fuel, gear and canopy load — sized with real headroom, not to the number on the spec sheet.
Built on the shore, floated into position, and filled with graded stone until it settled onto the lake bed.
Free tool · no sign-up
The first question is never what a dock would look like. It is what you are permitted to build at all — and that normally takes a phone call and a fortnight.
So we put the Lake George Park Commission's rules into a tool. Set your frontage, shape a dock, drop it onto a photo of your own shoreline, and watch it check itself live against the 700 sq ft cap, the 8 ft pier width, the 40 ft overall width and the 20 ft setbacks — plus how many docks your frontage actually entitles you to.
The second division
Painting, doors and windows, kitchens and baths, outdoor kitchens, additions and rental turnover — run by the same company, to the same standard.
Lakefront houses take weather the way lakefront docks do: wind-driven rain on the water elevation, reflected UV off the lake, and long stretches sitting empty and unheated. We build for that rather than to inland defaults.
How we work
We come to the property, sound the bottom, measure your frontage and look at your exposure. Nothing meaningful can be quoted from a photograph.
Drawings sized inside LGPC, APA and town limits, then filed and tracked. This is the step that takes months, so it starts early.
Structural and in-water work in the drawdown window, finish work into spring. You get progress photos whether or not you are in the area.
Spring and autumn inspections, seasonal lift service, and a number that gets answered when something happens in February.
In their words
Most of our work comes from repeat clients and the neighbours who watched us build next door. On a lake this small, that is the only reputation that matters.
Morgan and his team were absolutely amazing—attentive, responsive, and genuinely committed to making our vision a reality. We are beyond grateful for their dedication and highly recommend them for any renovation!
Where we work
From the village north to Ticonderoga, and from Assembly Point across to Bolton Landing — including the shorelines you can only reach by water.
Questions
Permits, ice, timing and cost. Straight answers, no hedging.
Yes. Lake George Park Commission regulations require a permit before anyone constructs, erects, places, alters, modifies, enlarges or expands a dock, wharf or mooring. Depending on the work, the Adirondack Park Agency, NYS DEC, the Army Corps of Engineers and your town may also have a role. We handle the whole path — see design & permitting.
For most residential properties: 700 square feet of surface area including the walkway, an 8-foot maximum pier width, 40 feet overall width, and a 20-foot setback from each neighbouring property line projected into the lake. How many docks you may have scales with your frontage.
Because in-water construction is a different trade. Materials arrive by barge or over ice, the working window is short and weather-dependent, several agencies review the design, and the structures have to survive a lake that freezes for around 76 days a year. A dock is closer to a small bridge than to a deck.
The summer or autumn before. Permitting commonly takes months, and the best structural work happens in the winter drawdown. Calling in April for a July dock is the single most common disappointment we have to deliver.
Yes, year-round. Storm damage, ice events, structural failures and boat lift failures. Call (518) 260-9878 — see emergency service.
Lake George, New York
Send us the property, a couple of photographs and what you have in mind. We will tell you what the rules allow, what the lake will let you build, and what it realistically involves.
