Fort Ticonderoga preserves 2,000 acres of historic landscape on Lake Champlain and Carillon Battlefield. It’s a historic destination with many attractions and programs amongst a picturesque landscape.

She hands me Lee’s lead rope and takes the one attached to Joy, the black donkey. We set off across the pasture, passing goats, sheep, llamas and alpacas. Clover Brooke is a fiber farm. Most of its ...