The Yaquina Bay Lighthouse is getting a full makeover next year and will be closed from Jan. 1 to June 2025. The lighthouse, built in 1871, is the only wooden lighthouse still intact on the Oregon ...

State parks officials had hoped the Yaquina Bay Lighthouse would open this month, after a $1.8 million renovation. But extensive rot and crumbling brick mean the building remains closed and wrapped in ...

The red, white and yellow wooden lighthouse doesn’t send a warning beacon. Instead it is an icon luring people from land and sea to Buzz’s Lighthouse. Boaters pull up to the docks and can head inside ...

Constructed between 1852 and 1918, early lighthouses provided crucial aid to navigation and safety along the Texas coastline. At first consisting of simple lamps mounted on temporary wooden structures ...

Note: One in a series of stories on Great Lakes lighthouses. The distinctive black-and-white Port Clinton lighthouse, which has a wooden square pyramidal tower only 20 feet tall, was built in 1896.

Lighthouses have been built in epic locations around the world, from volcanoes to sand dunes. The Tower of Hercules in Spain is the oldest operating lighthouse in the world. Some of these lighthouses, ...