Come learn about owls, go for a night hike, and listen for some owl hooting. We'll take an approximately 60-minute walk around Twin Valleys Outdoor Education Center. After the hike, come over to the bonfire to roast some marshmallows. This night hike is recommended for families with children ages 8 and up. Listening ears required!
Watch soldiers of the Northern Continental Army build huts at Ticonderoga, just as they did 250 years ago atop Liberty Hill. See American ingenuity in action as soldiers use boards posts, and beams to build new shelter as they guard Ticonderoga into the fall. Discover the historians’ detective work, piecing together this unique housing of 1776, as soldiers prepared to halt the inevitable British attack.
This event is made possible, in part, thanks to a Preserving America Grant from Americana Corner.
Construction 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.
The 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.
In this one-day living history event, explore how the small garrison of New York troops survived through the depths of the winter. See their continued work to maintain Fort Ticonderoga with its role in command of the Northern Department. Consider the choices made by American soldiers, asked to reenlist at Ticonderoga even as winter’s cold made them ache for home.
Two miles north of the Inn lies our newly-built, state-of-the art, private indoor pickleball court. “Our new court is the finest indoor pickleball