WHITEFISH POINT LIGHTHOUSE
Tour the museum lighthouse and explore miles of beautiful beach.
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Tour the museum lighthouse and explore miles of beautiful beach.
Click the image above to learn more.
“How much farther? How many more steps?” the little brown-haired girl asked her mother. “I don't know but it can't be much farther,” responded her mother. A few more steps led them into the watch room where for close to a hundred years courageous lighthouse keepers kept the light glowing. When she spied the door to the gallery, the girl jumped for joy. “We're here; we made it Mommy!” With her mother's help, she walked out onto the gallery and yelled, “Wow, we are so high!”
The ranger on the gallery welcomed the family to the top of the Cape Lookout Lighthouse, 150 feet above ground. At this elevation, where birds fly below, you'll find a great view of the dangerous shoals jutting into the Atlantic Ocean — the reason for building the lighthouse in the first place.
BASS HARBOR, Maine — For the second time in a decade, an iconic Maine lighthouse will soon start appearing in the pockets and pocketbooks of people across the country.
Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse on Mount Desert Island will be featured on the back of a U.S. quarter to be issued in 2012 as part of the U.S. Mint’s “America the Beautiful Quarters Program.”
Bass Harbor’s lighthouse was the location chosen to represent Acadia National Park, which will be the 13th park, national forest or historic site featured in a U.S. Mint series that continues through 2021. One site in each state plus Washington, D.C., and the five U.S. territories will be featured through the program.
