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Winter Quarters: November-April, open on select dates. Please visit the event calendar for more information.
Daily Visitation: May 3-Oct. 26, 2025 | Tues-Sun | 9:30am-5pm
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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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 75,000 visitors each year with an economic impact of more than $12 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.Instagram @FORT_TICONDEROGA
February is #BlackHistoryMonth celebrating the accomplishments of Black Americans throughout our nation`s past. This history is one of adversity, endurance, and hope, representing the highest and lowest points of the American experience.
Wartime often exacerbated these extremes, of repression and violence as well as liberation and opportunity. Ticonderoga`s history is full of examples of the promise moments of crisis created, and often the limits of change, despite great courage and perseverance.
Learn more about the stories of soldiers of color that served at Ticonderoga, like Lemuel Haynes who served as a militiaman at Ticonderoga in 1776, here on our website: https://www.fortticonderoga.org/news/promise-and-prejudice-ticonderoga-and-the-unfinished-revolution/
Check out our newest outreach program, Henry Knox in the Classroom!
With the 250th Anniversary of Henry Knox`s Noble Train of Artillery approaching, Fort Ticonderoga is inspiring students with the scale of this military feat, while encouraging them to consider the practical details of moving cannon and the work to understand history today. This program is offered in 2025 with support from the Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust. Learn more about this program and our other classroom outreach offerings.
https://www.fortticonderoga.org/learn-and-explore/educators/outreach/
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What`s that sound? Believe it or not, today is #nationalfartday!
While the people of the Revolutionary era may seem pretty uptight, they were not immune the infantile humor of human flatulence. Case in point, this 1776 edition in our library, from the Robert Nittolo Collection, of "L`Art de Péter" or "the Art of Farting." This was a satirical French publication mimicking the Age of Reason`s detailed interest in the natural world, adorned with a suitably flatulent illustration.
In 1781, Benjamin Franklin too famously applied his wit to this subject. Clearly this generation wasn`t as stuffy as their portraits may make them seem. To quote Dr. Franklin, without the ability to laugh at our bodies life would be "scarcely worth a FARThing."
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On this Trades Tuesday Artificer Shoemaker, Kevin Maher, is lasting the second of a pair of shoes. Within the trade of shoemaking, lasting is the step of drawing the upper, or top part of a shoe, down around the last, the form which gives the shoe is size and shape. The same lasting plyers that pull the leather, have a built-in hammer head, to drive in tacks which temporarily secure the wet leather upper in place around the last. As as a shoemaker sews the inseam, they pull these tacks. Once the shoe leather dries, it holds the shape of the last, until the wearer breaks in their new shoes. These shoes will equip our staff for their evolving portrayals, as we recreate 1775 at Ticonderoga in our REAL TIME REVOLUTION programming this year!
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Join Fort Ticonderoga for a captivating one-day REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ Living History Event: His Majesty’s Garrison of Ticonderoga on Saturday, February 15! Step back in time and discover the peaceful garrison life of British soldiers and their families at Fort Ticonderoga on the eve of the Revolutionary War.
Highlighted programming will recreate the daily life of the fort’s Guard of British soldiers and their families, who resided within the fort’s barracks. Witness two riveting musket-firing demonstrations, showcasing the peacetime training of these soldiers from the 26th Regiment of Foot, based on actual general orders for the British Army in North America. Observe the precision drill and target practice that were essential for maintaining marksmanship among these soldiers.
LEARN MORE: https://www.fortticonderoga.org/ft_events/real-time-revolution-living-history-event-his-majestys-garrison-of-ticonderoga/
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