Crown Point State Historic Site

We really stopped by here for the views, but the fort and area has a ton of history, as mentioned in detail by one of the other Unilocalers. It’s got great overlooks of the bridge and water and a very interesting monument, of sorts, on the tip of the ‘cape’ area.

If you sit on the ramparts of Crown Point you will see before you in your French and Indian War and American Revolution time travel vision Mohawk and Abnacki, French soldiers and British. If you listnen you can hear fife and drums either from a ghost regiment or the renenactment of General Richard Montgomery’s march to Montréal and doom in Quebec. The other amazing thing is one of many really, if you look at the massive ramparts from the road near the lake the earth mounds in double palisades looks like an ancient Celtic hillfort in Iron Age Britain!
If you do not like the tight historical film the museum shows or the artifacts found on site, or the beautiful lake Champlain the Key to the Continent and two colonial forts both British and French in situ and un-​Disneyfied then you might like one other thing about this quiet site that is as important as cannon fire, it is this, The site itself is free

The remains of the British officer barracks are just both eerie and breath taking. Nothing here gives you more pause than the remains of these buildings that add a sense of «this is real» to the location. They help you really understand that real people engaged in real life dangers far from their homes stayed here. It really affects me.
The remains of the small french fort on site are intriguing, though do not get me as much, probably because it is nothing more than small bits of foundation that are left.
I still love the place.

Great historical site; well maintained. Great for hiking/​jogging/​historical preservation.