• 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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  • May

    30

    Annual History Conference for Educators 

    This annual daylong conference immerses teachers in primary sources, material culture, and pedagogical techniques to help connect students to history. Presentations are by classroom teachers, museum staff, archivists, and academics. With the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, each session of this conference explores one of five themes: Power of Place Revolutionary Possibilities Shaping Nations, Forging […]

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  • May

    30–1

    Twenty-Ninth Annual War College of the Seven Years’ War

    Fort Ticonderoga presents the Twenty-Ninth Annual War College of the Seven Years’ War over three days, Friday-Sunday, May 30-June 1, 2025. Since its beginning in 1996, the War College has become a top venue for historians on subjects related to the Seven Years’ War in North America and beyond, drawing speakers and participants from across […]

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  • June

    7

    Annual Spring King’s Garden Plant Sale

    As part of National Garden Week June 1-7, and back by popular demand, mark your calendars for the return of the King’s Garden Plant Sale on June 7 from 10am-4pm! Help Fort Ticonderoga with the historic garden’s stewardship and take home your living legacy from the walled King’s Garden. Visitors have the option to purchase […]

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  • June

    8

    Virtual Author Series featuring Christian Di Spigna

    The Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. According to Christian Di Spigna, author of Founding Martyr: The Life and Death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution’s Lost Hero, little has been known of one of the most import figures in early American history. Dr. Joseph […]

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  • June

    21–22

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

    Discover Fort Ticonderoga under Benedict Arnold’s brief command and his dynamic leadership in the capture of the fort and its aftermath. Explore how politics, egos, and unclear authority led to an inquiry by the colony of Massachusetts and Benedict Arnold’s decision to resign his commission.

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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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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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#OTD 250 years ago—May 23, 1775, a survivor of Ethan Allen's failed attack on St. Jean returned to Crown Point with news of British troops on the march. This caused Benedict Arnold to issue an urgent call for reinforcements and write to the governments of Connecticut and Massachusetts for more men and supplies.

Arnold's May 23rd alarm got all the way to the Continental Congress and eventually prompted the first wave of Connecticut forces to reinforce Ticonderoga. But even by the end of May 23rd, Arnold had pulled back on some of the urgency with more intelligence arriving in camp later in the day.

See the epic video on our YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/@FortTiconderogaNY
RAIN OR SHINE this weekend May 24-25, Fort Ticonderoga will pay tribute to the men and women who lost their lives during the American Revolution.

On Sunday, May 25th, join the recreated procession of an American soldier’s funeral and see him laid to his final resting place. Pay respect to those who fell in the earliest days of the Revolutionary War and reflect on the ultimate sacrifice they made to secure our liberty today. 

View the full visitor schedule by visiting the link in bio!
On May 9, Benedict Arnold rode after Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys over their 28-mile march from Castletown to a half mile from the shore of Lake Champlain in Shoreham. Initially rebuffed by the Green Mountain Boys in Castletown on May 8, Benedict Arnold hoped his Colonel's commission from the Massachusetts Provincial Congress would allow him to take command at the end of their 13-hour journey northwards. Near the shore of Lake Champlain, Captain Epaphras Bull from Connecticut described their joint command, that they, "Have however Agreed that he [Benedict Arnold] take the Left hand of Coll. Allen..." While the arrangement lasted merely hours, it showcased a desire and willingness for soldiers from different colonies to work together and the difficulties inherent in uniting thirteen different colonies for their mutual defense.

We would also like to thank all of our Green Mountain Boys who braved the inclement weather in order to commemorate this seminal event 250 years ago to the day. #Vermont #America250 #Reenactor

See the epic video on our YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/@FortTiconderogaNY
RAIN OR SHINE this weekend May 24-25, Fort Ticonderoga will pay tribute to the men and women who lost their lives during the American Revolution.

Join a hive of activity as citizens-turned-soldiers reinforced extensive lines of defenses across the Ticonderoga peninsula and beyond to prepare for a renewed British invasion.

Throughout the weekend, witness the labor of liberty as Fort Ticonderoga staff portraying Continental Army soldiers bring to life this defining story through military drill, weapon demonstrations, historic trades, hauling timber with oxen and raising huts for shelter. Enjoy guided tours within the fort and museum exhibition spaces, ongoing historic trade programs, thrilling weapons demonstrations, fife and drum performances, and more!

See the full visitor schedule by visiting www.fortticonderoga.org.
Fort Ticonderoga celebrates #NationalMaritimeDay, today May 22, with a new 2025 historic boat building program and narrated boat tours aboard the Carillon on Lake Champlain. The maritime trades program is available daily Tuesday-Sunday throughout the Campaign Season. The Carillon boat tours will begin by the end of May and run through October.

In the midst of 250th Anniversaries of the Revolutionary War, events in 1775 played out on the waters surrounding Fort Ticonderoga, its strategic location deriving from this historic waterway. Visitors can explore the waters of Lake Champlain on board the classic 1920s-styled tour boat, Carillon, and discover the naval stories that surround Ticonderoga, and the archaeological discoveries beneath the lake.

During this 250th period, this project will raise public awareness of Lake Champlain’s role in the Revolutionary War. Visitors to Fort Ticonderoga this year will be able to participate in daily maritime trades programs including historic boat building, allowing visitors a hands-on opportunity to explore sail-making, boat carpentry, and rigging in the earliest days of the Revolutionary War. 

Learn more by clicking the link in bio!