Lang has battled pass protection woes before, but appears to have turned the corner in his third year.

Preserving the Battle Pass area and keeping the lots around the reservoir free of buildings were two reasons for establishing a large park in the area.

Within the park is the historic Battle Pass, prominent in the Battle of Long Island.

WYO 70 over Battle Pass is closed during winter (November to April).

The Continental Divide Trail traverses Battle Pass.

Bedford Pass: The troops defending this pass retreated toward the Battle Pass after being outflanked.

Flatbush Pass (Battle Pass), where the Flatbush Road cut through the pass.

American forces attempted to hold Battle Pass, an opening in the terminal moraine where the old Flatbush Road passed from Brooklyn to Flatbush.

Includes such park landmarks as the Soldiers and Sailors Arch, the Vale of Cashmere and Battle Pass, the 19th-century architecture of Park Slope.

On November 15, 2012, The Wyoming Highway Commission designated Wyoming State Highway 70 as the Battle Pass Scenic Byway.

Proteus Gowanus Interdisciplinary Gallery in Brooklyn is commemorating that fight with its Battle Pass Project, a series of installations, performances and family workshops connected to local historic sites.

The historic site of Battle Pass is now preserved in Prospect Park, and on Fifth Avenue there is a reconstruction of the stone farmhouse where a countercharge covered the American retreat.

Tide Mill Workshop: A Battle Pass Project (Saturday) The boats off Brooklyn are all friendly vessels today, but that wasn't true in 1776, when the British fleet invaded for what turned out to be the biggest battle of the Revolutionary War.