• 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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  • June

    20

    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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  • June

    21–22

    REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ Living History Event: Benedict Arnold’s Command

    As the nation gears up to celebrate its 250th anniversary, Fort Ticonderoga invites you to celebrate America’s 250th by stepping directly into history with its groundbreaking REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ initiative. Experience history as it happened 250 years ago to the moment during the immersive Living History Event, “Benedict Arnold’s Command,” on June 21-22, 2025. This […]

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  • June

    27

    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

    2

    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

    3

    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

    4–6

    REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ Living History Event: Independence Day Weekend

    Celebrate freedom by exploring the year 1775 and American’s armed fight for rights before the Declaration of Independence. Discover the how Americans learned how to be soldiers at Ticonderoga as armed rebellion expanded into an invasion of Canada. Take the experience onto the water aboard the Carillon tour boat. Dig into centuries of military history […]

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  • July

    4

    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

    8

    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

    9

    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

    9

    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

    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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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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Today we celebrate the 250th birthday of the United States Army.

Video available on our YouTube Channel @FortTiconderogaNY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71iHVKejspo

#armybday #Army250 #Goarmy250 #usarmy
Regional leaders gathered yesterday at Fort Ticonderoga to celebrate the 250th of the Northern Department as part of America’s national Semiquincentennial. A NEW America 250th heritage tourism trail features the Northern Department of the American Revolution and includes 18 historic destinations and museums across New York, Vermont, Quebec, and tribal nations.

From the rivers, lakes, and mountains between Saratoga and Montreal, a defining chapter of the American Revolution was written. Today, the Northern Department initiative, inspired by this legacy, invites you to explore our historic sites and museums. As America commemorates its 250th anniversary, discover the enduring spirit of the War for Independence right here where it happened. 

The Northern Department is featured in a NEW video production available across social media channels during the 250th commemorative period, which will place the region at the center of the conflict that shaped our nation. A new interactive website connects historic destinations and museums to the American Revolution. Additionally, Northern Department brochures are available throughout the region.

🎥 WATCH NOW! Link in stories ⬆️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftou31rylnM

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On this day 10 years ago, our tour boat the Carillon arrived at Fort Ticonderoga, to begin daily cruises of the historic waters of Lake Champlain. This photo is crossing the Crown Point bridge on the last leg of that journey in 2015. Celebrate our 10th anniversary season of the Carillon with your own cruise in 2025!
https://fortticonderoga.org/experience/boat-tours-champlain/
In May 1775, Connecticut chose to release Katherine and Mary Ann Margaret Skene, the daughters of British officer and Loyalist Philip Skene. The sisters, who were captured when American forces took their father’s settlement at Skenesborough, were sent to Montreal as noncombatants. 250 years ago today—June 10, 1775—the Continental Congress had to decide what to do with a more important prisoner: Philip Skene himself.

When Skenesborough was captured, Skene had been at sea returning from England, where he had been lobbying for a governorship over the posts in the Champlain Valley near his estates. He received an appointment as Lieutenant Governor of Ticonderoga and Crown Point, as well as a commission as Inspector and Surveyor of His Majesty’s Woods with an expansive purview as far as the Great Lakes, but war interrupted his plans. As soon as Skene’s ship landed in Philadelphia, he was taken into custody by the Continental Congress and kept in “Confinement Under the Custody of Centries with fixed Bayonets, and in a Guard Room”.

While Skene’s daughters were not politically active and could be safely sent to Canada, matters with Skene were different. As a lieutenant colonel in the British Army and with wide new authority along Lake Champlain, he was deeply distrusted by Continental officials. However, as an officer and a gentleman, Congress trusted Skene to keep his word of honor if offered a limited level of freedom. Congress resolved on June 10 “That Governor Skene be released from his present confinement and suffered to go at large anywhere within Eight Miles of the City… on his Parole of Honor.”

While giving Skene some freedom of movement seemed reasonable on June 10, the situation in America was changing quickly. Skene’s freedom would not last. In a note at the bottom of this copy of the resolution, Skene adds, “after the Affair at Bunkers Hill I was sent under an Escort of 700 men, a Prisoner to New York and from thence to Hartford in Connecticut”. He would remain a prisoner in Connecticut for over a year.

View the resolution (MS.7184.10) on the Ticonderoga Online Collections database: https://fortticonderoga.catalogaccess.com/archives/30815
During narrated boat tours aboard the Carillon, discover some of the most archaeologically rich waters in North America while surrounded by breathtaking lake views, commanding mountains, and the majestic fort. 

Sit back and relax with a regional beer, wine, or cider, and allow our friendly and knowledgeable staff to narrate Ticonderoga’s epic story as one of North America’s most strategic strongholds. 

Boat tours run Tuesday-Sunday through October 17. The 60-foot boat is available for daily tours, field trips, History Happy Hour cruises, and private charters. A selection of regional beer and cider, wine, soft drinks, water, and snacks are available for purchase on board. Tickets for the boat cruise are available online at www.fortticonderoga.org or can be purchased on-site, as available. Tours are available rain or shine.