Lighthouses are particularly special for road trippers exploring California’s striking coastline. Be sure to read to the end for an unusual lighthouse option, 75 miles east of the Pacific in ...

A docent-led lighthouse tour lasts about an hour and takes you straight into 19th century California. The most powerful presence is lighthouse keeper Emily Fish, who served from 1893 to 1914.

California’s coastline is 3,427 miles long, and since the 1850s, the state’s lighthouses have helped mariners navigate rough seas and fog. After hundreds of shipwrecks and not long after ...

California boasts nearly 30 lighthouses, beacons erected in days long gone to protect sailors and ships from rocky shoals and help them navigate the rugged coastline — and 16 of them were open ...

California lighthouses dot a coastline that is rugged, forbidding, beautiful, often fog bound and frequently deadly. Lighthouses on the western coast were built later in the nation’s development ...

Point Sur Lightstation, part of the Point Sur State Historic Park, has remained in continuous operation since its initial lighting in 1889, according to the California state park service.It is the ...

Standing at 115-feet-tall, Pigeon Point is the tallest operating lighthouse on the West Coast. In 2024, Pigeon Point Lighthouse will receive a $16-million makeover with hopes of reopening the ...

Pigeon Point Lighthouse Hostel, Pescadero, California. Perched at the top of a 35-foot cliff in Pescadero, California, the Pigeon Point Lighthouse is one of the tallest in the nation.

The iconic lighthouse has stood tall on a cliff overseeing California's coast since 1870. It was decommissioned by the U.S. Coast Guard in 1975 and landed in the hands of the National Park Service ...

A highly touted plan to restore one of California's most venerable coastal landmarks, Pigeon Point Lighthouse, has stalled amid red tape and financial woes.

California’s coastline is 3,427 miles long, and since the 1850s, the state’s lighthouses have helped mariners navigate rough seas and fog. After hundreds of shipwrecks and not long after ...

California’s coastline is 3,427 miles long, and since the 1850s, the state’s lighthouses have helped mariners navigate rough seas and fog. After hundreds of shipwrecks and not long after ...