• One Destination,
    Endless Adventures
    Your Adventure Awaits
    at Fort Ticonderoga

  • One Destination,
    Endless Adventures
    Your Adventure Awaits
    at Fort Ticonderoga

  • One Destination,
    Endless Adventures
    Your Adventure Awaits
    at Fort Ticonderoga

  • One Destination,
    Endless Adventures
    Your Adventure Awaits
    at Fort Ticonderoga

Welcome!

Experience the blend of history and natural beauty like nowhere else when you visit Fort Ticonderoga! Explore 2000 acres of America’s most historic landscape located on the shores of Lake Champlain and nestled between New York’s Adirondack and Vermont’s Green Mountains. Create lasting memories as you embark on an adventure that spans centuries, defined a continent, and helped forge a nation.

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EXPLORE THE 6-ACRE HEROIC CORN MAZE!

Share time with family and friends while exploring a unique corn maze located on the shores of Lake Champlain at Fort Ticonderoga, with a NEW DESIGN for 2025! Getting lost in this life-size puzzle is part of the fun as you look for history clues among towering stalks of corn! Find clues connected to our story as you navigate the maze!

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  • July

    10

    Ticonderoga Guns by Night

    The flash of musketry and roar of cannon fire by night will captivate you in this unique tour and demonstrations of 18th-century firepower. The program concludes with a dramatic demonstration of weapons that you will not see anywhere else!

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  • July

    11

    Cannon and Coffee

    Explore Fort Ticonderoga’s world-class collection of 18th-century artillery from a whole new perspective and be the first to enter Fort Ticonderoga with this special early bird program. Join Curator Dr. Matthew Keagle for a special tour across the guns of Ticonderoga and learn the surprising histories of the museum’s artillery collection, spanning the Atlantic Ocean […]

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  • July

    11

    History Happy Hour on Lake Champlain

    Cap off your day with a relaxing narrated cruise, surrounded by scenic beauty and Ticonderoga’s rich maritime history aboard the Carillon, Fort Ticonderoga’s classic 1920s tour boat. From poignant to comical, discover the drama that surrounded Ticonderoga on the storied waters of Lake Champlain. Enjoy the flavor of history through classic cocktails, taken from tales […]

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  • July

    16

    Morning Glory: A Premium Garden Experience

    Start your day with the tranquil joy of the stunning King’s Garden flowers draped in glistening morning dew set within a national historic landmark. Be the first to enter the King’s Garden during this NEW premium morning tour and discover the layers of stories and the process of cultivating this historical botanical garden today.

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  • July

    17

    Ticonderoga Guns by Night

    The flash of musketry and roar of cannon fire by night will captivate you in this unique tour and demonstrations of 18th-century firepower. The program concludes with a dramatic demonstration of weapons that you will not see anywhere else!

    See More
  • July

    18

    History Happy Hour on Lake Champlain

    Cap off your day with a relaxing narrated cruise, surrounded by scenic beauty and Ticonderoga’s rich maritime history aboard the Carillon, Fort Ticonderoga’s classic 1920s tour boat. From poignant to comical, discover the drama that surrounded Ticonderoga on the storied waters of Lake Champlain. Enjoy the flavor of history through classic cocktails, taken from tales […]

    See More
  • July

    20

    Virtual Author Series featuring Michael P. Gabriel

    The Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. Available for the first time in English, Quebec during the American Invasion, 1775-1776: The Journal of François Baby, Gabriel Taschereau, & Jenkin Williams provides an insight into the failure to incite rebellion in Quebec by American revolutionaries. While other […]

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  • July

    22

    Ticonderoga’s Treasures of 1775

    This unique experience highlights original museum artifacts from the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Learn more about the dramatic events, and captivating personalities of 1775 through the documents and artifacts that were there. Ethan Allen, Benedict Arnold, and Henry Knox and their experience will come to life through this tour of Ticonderoga’s treasures led by […]

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  • July

    23

    Morning Glory: A Premium Garden Experience

    Start your day with the tranquil joy of the stunning King’s Garden flowers draped in glistening morning dew set within a national historic landmark. Be the first to enter the King’s Garden during this NEW premium morning tour and discover the layers of stories and the process of cultivating this historical botanical garden today.

    See More
  • July

    23

    Ramparts or Ruins? A Guided Tour of Fort Ticonderoga’s Fortifications

    In 1775, Fort Ticonderoga was only 20 years old and was already suffering from war and neglect. Join this after-hour guided tour to see what Fort Ticonderoga was really like as the Revolution began. Learn about the British plans to renovate Ticonderoga, and how its decay led to America’s first victory, while exploring the fortifications […]

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  • July

    24

    Ticonderoga Guns by Night

    The flash of musketry and roar of cannon fire by night will captivate you in this unique tour and demonstrations of 18th-century firepower. The program concludes with a dramatic demonstration of weapons that you will not see anywhere else!

    See More
  • July

    25

    History Happy Hour on Lake Champlain

    Cap off your day with a relaxing narrated cruise, surrounded by scenic beauty and Ticonderoga’s rich maritime history aboard the Carillon, Fort Ticonderoga’s classic 1920s tour boat. From poignant to comical, discover the drama that surrounded Ticonderoga on the storied waters of Lake Champlain. See what lies beneath with the onboard sonar. Enjoy the flavor […]

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About Fort Ticonderoga

Welcoming visitors since 1909, Fort Ticonderoga is a major cultural destination, museum, historic site, and center for learning. As a multi-day destination and the premier place to learn more about North America’s military heritage, Fort Ticonderoga engages more than 70,000 visitors each year with an economic impact of more than $16 million annually. Presenting vibrant programs, historic interpretation, boat cruises, tours, demonstrations, and exhibits, Fort Ticonderoga and is open for daily visitation May through October and special programs during Winter Quarters, November through April. Fort Ticonderoga is owned by The Fort Ticonderoga Association, a 501c3 non-profit educational organization, and is supported in part through generous donations and with some general operating support made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts. To view Fort Ticonderoga’s electronic press kit, click here. © The Fort Ticonderoga Association. 2025 All Rights Reserved.
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Fort Ticonderoga recently received a grant from the South Lake Champlain Fund of the Vermont Community Foundation to support a regional youth maritime expeditionary learning program Maritime Artificer’s Apprentice for student and scout field trips, and as virtual or in-classroom outreach, during the 2025-2026 school year.

This inquiry-based maritime trades program illustrates the construction of the American fleet in the southern points of Lake Champlain. The students and scouts that participate in this program examine Lake Champlain’s role within the Revolutionary War, discovering the urgency with which American artisans assembled wooden vessels for war. Using reproduction carpentry, sailmaking, & rigging tools at Fort Ticonderoga, looking on the water from the shore of Lake Champlain is a formative experience for regional students and scouts.

The Maritime Artificer’s Apprentice program invites youth to consider networks of trade across the Atlantic world that supplied vital naval stores for the American fleet in 1776 as they delve into the interconnection between skilled trades employed in vessel construction. Connects names and dates with real tangible skills, materials, and tools, this program provides a multi-sensory experience that reaches students when traditional textbooks and classroom lectures cannot. This program engages students in the southern Lake Champlain region with local maritime history and its national significance, by integrating geometry, geography, economics, and applied physics through hands-on or eyes-on instruction in maritime trades.

READ MORE: https://fortticonderoga.org/news/fort-ticonderoga-receives-funding-to-support-regional-youth-programming/
On July 8, 1775 many British and American officers in the Revolutionary War remembered back to their own experience at the Battle of Carillon, 17 years before. The memory of this battle inspired caution and courage alike for Americans at Ticonderoga and beyond, as they framed their struggle in 1775 with this infamous battle of 1758.

See the full video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCWnZC7Wuok

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What did Fort Ticonderoga look like when it was captured by American forces in 1775?

How was it different from the fort today... and what is hidden beneath the walls?

Explore what Ticonderoga was like in 1775 as the Revolutionary War began and how the veteran fort evolved from the French and Indian War to the present in our new specialty evening tour "Ramparts or Ruins?" beginning this Wednesday, July 9 at 5pm. 

To sign up, or for more information, see our website:
https://fortticonderoga.org/ft_events/?_sft_ft-event-category=ramparts-or-ruins
In a letter Benedict Arnold wrote to the Continental Congress dated July 11, 1775 detailing the situation of the Army of the Northern Department, he wrote that it has been six days since he left Crown Point. In all likelihood his trip up Lake George towards Albany, where he wrote this letter, would have begun after a day of travel from Crown Point to Ticonderoga placing his date of departure from the Champlain valley on the 6th of July. For his next trip up north he would blaze an entirely different route up the Kennebec river in Maine but fall back to Ticonderoga with the rest of the Continental Army in the summer of 1776.
As news of the capture of Fort Ticonderoga spread across the colonies, so did rumors, as each participant put their own spin on the story. In our July 1 post, we shared a newspaper that published the story of the capture according to Colonel James Easton, fierce rival of Benedict Arnold, which inflated Easton’s role and erased Arnold. 

Easton’s story did not have staying power. A letter from Arnold to the Massachusetts Provincial Congress arrived at their headquarters in Charlestown, MA on May 22, five days after Easton did, providing a more accurate account of the capture. However, Easton was not the only one spreading false stories involving Arnold. 250 years ago today—July 6, 1775—Arnold had to make an attempt to set the record straight. 

In this letter, addressed to “The Gentlemen at Charlstown”, Arnold tries to combat a rumor from an unknown source spreading in Massachusetts. “Gentlemen,” he begins, “Col. Hinman has Just shown me a Letter, Dated at Charlston June 30…which Seems evidently Calculated by Cpt. Coughran, or some other Person, to Asperse my Character by Intimating I gave orders or rather Countenanced the Plundering [of] Major Skene’s House”. The house of Loyalist and British officer Philip Skene had been captured along with his settlement at Skenesborough on May 9. While Skenesborough was an acceptable target, stealing the Skene family’s personal goods would have been seen as ungentlemanly and against the accepted conventions of war. 

By the time Arnold wrote this letter, he was no longer in Massachusetts’ employ. He had resigned his commission on June 23 rather than serve under another commander. But his reputation as an officer and a gentleman was personally and professionally important to him—he was out of military service, but he had ambitions for the future. To defend himself, Arnold provided hard evidence. “To Convince you of my Innocency in the Matter,” he writes, “herewith you have a copy [of] my Orders to Capt. Herrick, the Officer I sent to take Possession” of Skenesborough.

Learn more about the letter (object ID 2001.0084.002) on the Ticonderoga Online Collections database: https://fortticonderoga.catalogaccess.com/archives/29425
Today and tomorrow, as part of Independence Day weekend, listen to the fifes and drums of Colonel Hinman’s Connecticut regiment play the patriotic songs which the fight for rights and the everyday tunes and marches that regulated army life at Ticonderoga in 1775! 

https://fortticonderoga.org/ft_events/real-time-revolution-living-history-event-independence-day-weekend/
250 years ago today—July 4, 1775—the Continental Congress was a year away from adopting the Declaration of Independence, but this year, the day was ordinary for most Americans. Big questions of independence or reunion with Britain aside, there were encampments to defend, structures to build, troops to supply, strategies to plan, and bills to pay. 

One bill that Connecticut owed was to Josiah Stoddard. This pay order, signed by Oliver Ellsworth and Thomas Seymour of the Connecticut Committee of the Pay Table on July 4, 1775, directs treasurer John Lawrence to “Pay Mr. Josiah Stoddard of Salisbury the Sum of Seven pounds, ten shillings, and three pence money in Bills for what he paid out & Expended in the late Expedition to reduce Tainderoga & Crown point”. 

Stoddard was part of the party authorized by Connecticut for the capture of Ticonderoga. As a resident of Salisbury, CT, Stoddard may have known former Salisbury resident Ethan Allen and his family. At least two of Ethan’s brothers, Levi and Heman, still lived in Salisbury in 1775. Levi joined the Ticonderoga expedition with Stoddard, and the two reunited with Ethan, now leader of the Green Mountain Boys. Stoddard likely returned to Connecticut by mid-June, but had to wait several weeks to receive his money.

Each of the men who signed this pay order would have further roles to play in history. Stoddard returned to the military, becoming a Continental captain of dragoons before his death in 1779 from a lung disease contracted in service. Thomas Seymour served in Connecticut’s General Assembly, directing its Congressional delegates to vote for American independence in 1776. Oliver Ellsworth joined the Continental Congress later in the war and was one of the originators of the Connecticut Compromise during the Constitutional Convention, giving the nation its bicameral legislature. 250 years ago today, though, the men went about their typical days, taking the everyday actions that kept the colony and the army running. 

Learn more about the pay order (object ID MS.7614, property of Robert Nittolo) on the Ticonderoga Online Collections database: https://fortticonderoga.catalogaccess.com/archives/31496
During the American Revolution, women were not just supporting the war from the sidelines. In cities like Philadelphia, they were filling cartridges by the thousands, arming the fight for independence.

This small paper object speaks volumes about this essential and often overlooked contribution.

Watch our latest video to explore this artifact from "A Revolutionary Anthology: Subjects, Citizens, Service." 

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