PESCADERO — Nothing brings more visitors to the historic Pigeon Point lighthouse than the annual illumination of its antique beacon, the Fresnel Lens. More than 1,000 people are expected to visit the ...

Atlantic City’s Absecon Lighthouse started that tradition in 2010, inviting people to come out and climb to the top to see the full moon rising. By the next year, Cape May Lighthouse was doing the ...

When Fred Boltz and Karen Olivas woke up Saturday in Atlantic City, they could see Absecon Lighthouse out their hotel-room window. On a whim, they decided to check it out. When they got there, they ...

EASTPOINT -- Drill. Toss. Load. Scrape. Drill. Sweaty and covered in dust, a handful of St. George Island retirees toil to sort and clean the rubble of their community's 155-year-old lighthouse, which ...

CAPE ELIZABETH, Maine (AP) - Two-dozen lighthouses are participating in this year’s Maine Open Lighthouse Day. The daylong event on Saturday that’s sponsored by the United States Coast Guard, the ...

WIND POINT — Rebecca Kim walked through a narrow brick tunnel Sunday afternoon, looking at the circular metal staircase that loomed before her and disappeared into a dark tower. Kim, 40, of Lake Villa ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story originally appeared in True North Magazine's Fall/Winter 2011 issue. NORTHEAST MICHIGAN – Like lighthouses? Then have we got a festival for you. The Great Lakes Lighthouse ...

This June marks the 26th annual Lighthouse Festival. On June 7-9, Door County will open up selected coastal sentinels for those interested in exploring a significant part of the county’s history.

In the days before easy communications, to a ship on the final and perhaps most treacherous part of its voyage, the flash of the lighthouse would have signalled the end of a long journey and safe ...