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The Fort Ticonderoga Ferry is a cable ferry crossing Lake Champlain between Ticonderoga, New York, and Shoreham, Vermont. It connects the New York and Vermont segments of State Route 74 The ferry can carry up to 18 cars and has a weight limit of 15 tons. The ferry operates seasonally, from May to October.
The ferry's abbreviated winter schedule wouldn't normally start until Dec. 31 or Jan. 2, but is in effect now. Lake Champlain Transportation of Burlington operates the Essex-Charlotte ferry, as ...
From about 1820 to 1850, approximately five horse ferry crossings operated on Lake Champlain. [31] The Burlington Bay Horse Ferry shipwreck discovered in 1983 in Lake Champlain is an example of a turntable team boat. [32] [33] "Horse-powered ferries like the one sunk in the Bay of Burlington, Vermont, had reached their heyday in the 1830s and ...
The Fort Ticonderoga–Larrabees Point Ferry is the oldest and southernmost ferry on Lake Champlain. [8] Its cable system consists of two 1.1-inch (2.8 cm) steel cables in parallel alignment. [9] The current ferry barge, in operation since 1959, is powered by a sixteen-ton tugboat built in 1979 that can hold up to 18 cars. [8]
The Champlain and Adirondack ferries, which have crossed between Vermont and New York for decades, are being dismantled in the spring of 2022. Two longtime ferries on Lake Champlain are being ...
Port Kent station is a temporarily closed Amtrak intercity train station in Port Kent, New York, normally served by the Adirondack.It is only served when the Lake Champlain Transportation Company Port Kent–Burlington Ferry is in operation – typically from May to October (typically Columbus Day).
Cumberland Head is a peninsula projecting into Lake Champlain, and includes the communities of Rocky Point and Champlain Park. A landing for the Lake Champlain Transportation Company's ferry to Gordon Landing on Grand Isle, Vermont, is near the southern end of Cumberland Head. Cumberland Bay State Park is located at the northern end of the ...
The remains of the horse ferry were discovered in 1983 during a side-scan sonar survey of Burlington Bay. Through the 1980s it was subjected to several investigations, including a National Geographic expedition that was published in 1988. Between 1989 and 1992 divers visited the site, in which test areas were excavated in order to document the ...