Don't miss your last chance this year to climb this historic Big Sable (MI) lighthouse
Labor Day weekend is your last chance this year to climb the historic Big Sable Light on the shore of Lake Michigan.
The lighthouse will be open daily from 10 am to 5 pm through Labor Day, and then will close for the season on Tuesday, Sept. 3. The final weekend included a bus day that allows visitors to skip the hike, which is a four-mile roundtrip.
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Conimicut Lighthouse, RI, looks 'brand new' after facelift
The Conimicut Shoal Lighthouse will continue to light the way for boaters in Narragansett Bay for decades to come.
The lighthouse was built in the late 1800's between the coasts of Warwick and Barrington. Now owned by the city of Warwick, it's undergone major renovations.
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Restoration work finished at Conimicut Lighthouse
The Conimicut Shoals Lighthouse looks as good as new after restoration efforts came to a close. According to Warwick Mayor Frank Picozzi, the restoration company refabricated all decayed metals, railings, gutter systems, supports, ornamental features, windows, doors and more.
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Fireworks, climb Bevertail Lighthouse and more. What to do in Newport County, RI, this weekend.
Head over to the southern tip of Jamestown on Monday and climb to the top of Beavertail Lighthouse between 1:30- and 4 pm.
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Split Rock Lighthouse, MN, shines with new tours, Indigenous history exhibit
It's a sunny August Saturday at Split Rock Lighthouse historical site in northern Minnesota on the shore of Lake Superior.
There's a line out the lighthouse door of visitors eager to catch a glimpse of the ring-shaped Fresnel lens, dozens of people perusing T-shirts and puzzles in the gift shop and crowds gathered on the shore to snap photos of the iconic yellow brick tower standing on a 130-foot cliff face.
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Athletes to swim to Alligator Lighthouse, FL, and back
Nearly 500 solo and relay-team open-ocean swimmers will attempt to complete the 11th annual Swim for Alligator Lighthouse, a unique endurance challenge slated for Saturday, Sept. 7, in Atlantic Ocean waters off Islamorada.
Individuals and two-, three- and four-person teams must conquer the 8-mile roundtrip course to the historic lighthouse and back in less than eight hours.
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Paint removal underway at the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, NC
The black-and-white diagonal stripes that make the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse an iconic landmark are disappearing - at least for now.
Roughly eight months into an extensive restoration project, the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse already looks like a different structure, with a tower of scaffolding and a new temporary lens lighting up the night. However, this next phase in the project may be the most eye-catching and noticeable change yet.
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A Lighthouse is named Maine's most iconic landmark, but is it the right one?
Every single day, there's a travel blog of food critic releasing a new list talking about the best places to visit or the best places to eat across the country. Maine should be proud that the state is regularly featured on these lists. Vacationland is home to top-tier restaurants, scenic destinations and beyond.
But occasionally, some of the travel blogs make a choice that seems particularly odd. On the surface, that choice would seem to make sense but goes against everything that people who live in the state have come to know. And it's happened again.
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The White River Light Station (MI) guided lumber across Lake Michigan after the Great Chicago Fire
Almost 150 years ago, White River Light Station became a guiding beacon connecting West Michigan to Chicago - first for lumber and then for tourists.
The historic light station sits on the channel connecting White Lake to Lake Michigan, located at 6199 Murray Road in Whitehall.
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Saving The Last Lighthouse In Galveston - Bolivar Point, TX
The ferry ride to Bolivar Peninsula in Galveston County in the first time in months I've stepped out in the daylight and not immediately made a rude gesture a the oppressive sun. The air over Galveston Bay is a good ten degrees cooler than the asphalt oven of Houston, and it's hard to feel anything but joy while watching adorably tiny dolphins dance in the boat's wake.
The Bolivar Point Lighthouse watches over the whole scene in the distance as it has done since 1872. The cast iron tower stands 117 feet, making it the tallest lighthouse of the five left in Texas and well above average for American lighthouses overall. It is the last lighthouse left in the Galveston area.
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Teddy Roosevelt Visits the Montauk Lighthouse, NY
On Sept. 6, 1898, Col. Theodore Roosevelt paid a visit to the Montauk Lighthouse, signing a guestbook owned by Capt. J.G. Scott, the Lighthouse keeper.
This guestbook recorded the signatures of those who visited the Lighthouse between 1897 and 1908 and it documents only a fraction of those who did so during Captain Scott's 25-year service as keeper.
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