Fort Ticonderoga is now in Winter Quarters!
From November through April, visitors will be immersed in exciting living history events, engaging seminars, specialty programs, behind-the-scenes VIP Tours, and hands-on workshops.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Fort Ticonderoga and Mount Defiance will be open for daily visitation Tuesday-Sunday May 3-Oct. 26, 2025
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REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ 3-Day Reenactment: No Quarter!
May 9, 2025 - May 11, 2025 • Fort Ticonderoga“No Quarter!,” a series of once-in-a-lifetime historic reenactments and events running from May 9-11, will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the pivotal capture of Fort Ticonderoga. At the very locations where events unfolded, a three-day immersive experience will transport visitors back to dawn of the American Revolution and our nation’s first victory. “Visitors will step […]
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REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ Evening Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
May 10, 2025 • 102 fort ti road ticonderoga**THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN SOLD OUT!!** 7:30 p.m. Fort Ticonderoga Opens to Visitors for Evening Vignette 8:00 p.m. The Last Hour of British Ticonderoga (Soldiers’ and Officers’ Barracks) Put, ‘America’s First Victory,’ into perspective as you meet the British soldiers and their families that garrisoned Ticonderoga up to May 10, 1775. Examine the mess room […]
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REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ Living History Event: Memorial Day Weekend
May 24, 2025 - May 25, 2025 • Fort TiconderogaJoin Fort Ticonderoga on Memorial Day weekend, to remember the service of the men and women of the armed forces of the United States who gave their all on the very grounds where so many American soldiers fought and sacrificed. Join the Fifes & Drums of Fort Ticonderoga for a special commemorative ceremony on Sunday. […]
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REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ Living History Event: Benedict Arnold’s Command
June 21, 2025 - June 22, 2025 • Fort TiconderogaDiscover 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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REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ Living History Event: Independence Day Weekend
July 4, 2025 - July 6, 2025 • Fort TiconderogaCelebrate 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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REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ Signature Reenactment Event: Onward to Canada
August 30, 2025 - August 31, 2025 • Fort TiconderogaWitness the dramatic first muster of the Northern Continental Army as regiments of New Yorkers, Connecticut Yankees, and the Green Mountain Boys assembled for the invasion of Canada. This event will highlight Ticonderoga’s place on Lake Champlain as a supply and naval base through participants rowing to and from Ticonderoga as a fleet of bateaux […]
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REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ Living History Event: British Prisoners of War at Ticonderoga
October 25, 2025 - October 26, 2025 • Fort TiconderogaBritish prisoners of war and their families come in from St. Jean & Chambly. Captive at Ticonderoga, these soldiers, women, and children prepare to march onward to prisoner camps further south, and perhaps the hope of being exchanged for American prisoners of war.
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REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ Living History Event: Veterans Day Weekend
November 8, 2025 • Fort TiconderogaSalute veterans service in the defense of the United States, beginning with the first citizen-soldiers of 1775. Discover how the rigors of the first campaign of the Revolutionary War affected young draftees and Seven Years’ War veterans alike. Explore how American soldiers understood the meaning of their service a wartime year, before the Declaration of […]
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REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ Signature Reenactment Event: Noble Train Begins
December 6, 2025 • Fort TiconderogaThe arrival of Henry Knox, and the proofing and selection of cannon will all be recreated in this day-long event. Special for the 250th Anniversary, this event will reach further in Ticonderoga’s role, recreating the whole first leg of the Noble Train, bringing cannon to Lake George, where they embarked for Boston.
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REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ Living History Event: Proceed to Canada
March 28, 2026 • Fort TiconderogaIn this one-day living history event experience Ticonderoga as a supply hub for the Northern Department of the Continental Army, keeping soldiers alive in Canada. Watch as we recreate trains of supply sleds and columns of Continental reinforcements, headed for Canada. Through vignettes, weapons demonstrations, and historic trades demonstrations, discover the challenges of keeping the […]
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REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ Living History Event: Emissaries to Canada
April 11, 2026 • Fort TiconderogaJoin Fort Ticonderoga for this one-day living history event to examine the tenuous American in Canada in April 1776. Meet the special committee from the Continental Congress, including Benjamin Franklin and Charles Carrol, that passed through Ticonderoga as they assess the situation in Canada. Learn more about their diplomatic work to allay fears among French […]
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REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ Signature Reenactment Event: Return of an Army
July 3, 2026 - July 5, 2026 • Fort TiconderogaThis event will portray the retreat of the Northern Continental Army to Ticonderoga as the Declaration of Independence was signed to Philadelphia. The maritime arrival and encampment of the Continental Army will show the nadir of this army, from which their labor would lead to a key victory in 1776.
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REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ Signature Reenactment Event: “Today We Are a Nation Among the People of the World”
July 28, 2026 • Fort TiconderogaThe first reading of the Declaration of Independence to the troops of Ticonderoga will be presented, set within a backdrop of the ongoing preparations on land and on water for the British invasion.
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REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ Signature Reenactment Event: Fleet & Fortification: The Science of Defense
September 5, 2026 - September 6, 2026 • Fort TiconderogaConstruction of an armed vessel for Lake Champlain and all the maritime trades work to fit out such a boat will be paired with the art of fortification as executed across the Ticonderoga camp. This event will drill into the centuries of military science that informed American ingenuity and effort, in the service of liberty.
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REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ Battle Reenactment: Hold the Line for Liberty
October 24, 2026 - October 25, 2026 • Fort TiconderogaThis reenactment will dramatically recreate one of the greatest Continental Army victories of 1776 that occurred at the same time as one of its greatest defeats. The moment soldiers and militiamen at Ticonderoga held the line for liberty—and perhaps secured independence—will come to life.
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REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ Battle Reenactment: Riot!
December 19, 2026 • Fort TiconderogaRegional tensions within the Continental Army explode in this event, as Pennsylvanians turn on their fellow New England soldiers. The riot between, ‘Yankees,’ and, ‘Buckskins,’ will be dramatically recreated, revealing the humanity of soldiers willing to stand up for liberty.
