“Spectacular scenery unlike any
other in the Northeast.”
| Sackets Harbor Cultural Park |
| Market Square Park and Bandstand |
| Sackets Harbor Battlefield State Historic Site |
| Westcott Beach State Park |
| Pickering Beach Museum and Cottage |
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The former main route is now a scenic and pleasant bike ride along these upper reaches of the Sacandaga River and connects to the Speculator Bike Loop trails, near the Adirondack Trail
DAR Cable Carry Monument on the War of 1812
Olympic Byway, County Rt. 3, near Sackets Harbor in Jefferson County
In May of 1814, a twenty-minute skirmish involving only a few hundred soldiers helped assert the United States’s superiority on Lake Ontario in the latter part of the War of 1812.
Although there were as many as 200 people who directly participated in either the Battle of Big Sandy or the Great Cable Carry, very few recorded their experiences. In 1930, at a meeting of the Daughters of the War of 1812, a committee formed to decide the route and location of three permanent bronze memorials for the Trail of the Great Rope. The same year three six-ton markers, each measuring 6 feet wide and 7.5 feet high, were delivered to Ellisburg, Smithville, and Sackets Harbor.
| Closest Community: | |
| Closest Byway: | Olympic Byway |
| Distance from Byway: | on |
| Closest Route #: | County Rt. 3 |
| Indoors or Outdoors: | outdoor |
| Admission Fee: | no |
| Latitude: | 43.9294326052 |
| Longitude: | -76.1071702637 |