Ticonderoga

Fort Ticonderoga

Battlefield · 100 Fort Ti Rd, Ticonderoga, NY 12883

The most significant fortification on the Lake Champlain–Lake George corridor, built by the French as Fort Carillon in 1755 and renamed after British capture in 1759. On May 10, 1775, Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys captured it from a surprised British garrison — Allen famously demanding surrender 'in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress.' Henry Knox hauled its cannon to Boston that winter. Burgoyne retook it in July 1777. Restored in the 20th century and operated as a private museum, it is the most fully preserved Revolutionary War fortification in the United States.

Fort Ticonderoga Museum

Museum · 100 Fort Ti Rd, Ticonderoga, NY 12883

The fort's museum collection includes one of the finest assemblages of French and Indian War and Revolutionary War military artifacts in North America: period weapons, uniforms, flags, maps, and documents spanning three centuries of North American warfare. The collection includes artifacts from the 1775 capture, the Knox cannon train, and Burgoyne's 1777 recapture. Scholarly programs and living history demonstrations supplement the permanent collection.

Ticonderoga Heritage Museum

Museum · 137 Montcalm St, Ticonderoga, NY 12883

Local history museum in the village of Ticonderoga interpreting the community's full history from the colonial period through the industrial era. Provides context for the fort's place in regional history and the lives of ordinary people who lived in the shadow of the strategic fortification. The community's history is inseparable from the repeated cycles of siege, capture, abandonment, and reconstruction that characterized the fort.

King's Garden at Fort Ticonderoga

Landmark · 100 Fort Ti Rd, Ticonderoga, NY 12883

A restored 18th-century kitchen garden adjacent to the fort, recreated based on documentary and archaeological evidence of the French and British period. The garden provides context for understanding the garrison's self-sufficiency — how a frontier fortification fed itself, what grew in northern New York in the 18th century, and how the civilian dimensions of military life intersected. Operated by Fort Ticonderoga as an educational resource.

Lake Champlain Overlook at Fort Ticonderoga

Landmark · 100 Fort Ti Rd, Ticonderoga, NY 12883

The views from Fort Ticonderoga north across Lake Champlain and east across Lake George explain the fort's strategic significance in a single glance. The fort sits at the confluence of the two lakes, commanding the principal water route between Canada and the Hudson Valley. Any army moving south from Canada had to pass within artillery range of this promontory — the reason every major power in the northeastern theater fought for it.

Mount Defiance

Landmark · Defiance St, Ticonderoga, NY 12883

The 853-foot peak overlooking Fort Ticonderoga from the southwest that Burgoyne's artillery chief William Phillips hauled cannon up in July 1777. American commanders believed the slope too steep for artillery — they were wrong. Phillips reportedly said "Where a goat can go, a man can go; and where a man can go, he can haul a gun." Once the British placed guns on the summit commanding the fort and its water approaches, the American position became untenable. The garrison evacuated July 5–6, 1777 without a fight. A road and tower at the summit offer panoramic views explaining the tactical situation immediately.