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Lighthouse Tour
Senior Times - June 2021
Lake Michigan
By: Adrienne Brown-Reasner, West Michigan Tourist Association
Vacationers have been looping the lake for generations, but the official “Lake Michigan Circle Tour” route was not established until the 1980s when the Michigan Department of Transportation teamed up with the West Michigan Tourist Association to create the route and its official guidebook. Along the tour, travelers will find more than 100 lighthouses, countless islands, unique attractions, parks and natural areas, miles of glorious beaches, quaint harbor towns, and one “modern marvel” – the Mackinac Bridge.
are landmarks of history for those on land.
The lighthouses found on the Great Lakes number 388 in total and are dis- persed as follows:
• Lake Michigan – 97
• Lake Huron – 95
• Lake Superior – 75
• Lake Erie – 68
• Lake Ontario – 53
Boat around Lake Huron's Thunder Bay Island for glimpses of its red-and- white lighthouse. Visit Lake Superior's Big Bay Point Lighthouse for a rare opportunity to overnight in a historic light. Learn about Great Lakes ship- wrecks and the keepers who tried to prevent them at lighthouse and mari- time museums in Mackinaw City, South Haven, Ludington and Whitefish Point.
Interestingly, 300 of these 388 are still active aids to navigation today. While we will claim the majority of them in Michigan, the reality is that they span eight states and two coun- tries. The breakdown includes:
• Ontario – 94
• Michigan – 109
• Wisconsin – 39
• New York – 21
• Ohio – 14
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With lake levels being extremely low that year, the work crew was able to transport the building materials directly to the island using horse-drawn wagons. Information courtesy LighthouseFriends.com
77. Kewaunee Pierhead Lighthouse Year Built: 1912 Tower Height: 43' Tours: No Stay at the light? No GPS Coordinates: 44°27'26.67"N
87°29'34.4"W Website: Kewaunee.org
Did You Know? This was originally built as a fog signal building at a time when there were two light towers housing range lights on the pier. In 1931 a lantern room was installed on top of the building and the front tower was moved to the entrance of the Chicago River.
80. Manitowoc Breakwater Lighthouse
Year Built: 1918 Tower Height: 50' Tours: No Stay at the light? No GPS Coordinates: 44°5'33.94"N
87°38'37.49"W Did You Know? In 2002 the fifth-order Fresnel lens was removed and placed
on display at the nearby Wisconsin Maritime Museum. Learn more about the museum at WisconsinMaritime.org.
83. Port Washington North Pierhead Light
Year Built: 1935 Tower Height: 58' Tours: No Stay at the light? No GPS Coordinates: 4837°2531'0374.19"NW Website: VisitPortWashington.com
Did You Know? The Port Washington North Pierhead Light is one of only two art deco lighthouses of this design; the other is on Lake Erie.
84. Kevich Light Year Built: 1981 Tower Height: 50' Tours: No Stay at the light? No GPS Coordinates: 43°19'24.6"N
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Michigan to fulfill a personal quest to own and live in a lighthouse. Kevich Lighthouse stands just 50' tall, but has a focal plane of 163', giving it the distinction of having the highest focal plane of any active lighthouse on the Great Lakes.
Information courtesy LighthouseFriends.com
87. Wind Point Lighthouse
Year Built: 1880 Tower Height: 108' Tours: By Appointment
Stay at the light? No
GPS Coordinates: 42°46'52.87"N
87°45'30.36"W Website: WindPointLighthouse.org
Did You Know? The Fog Horn Building, located on the lighthouse grounds, shows the original design with the large horns aimed towards the lake. The fog signals can be heard as far as 10 miles out into Lake Michigan.
89. Southport Lighthouse
Year Built: 1866 Tower Height: 55' Tours: Yes, Seasonally
GPS Coordinates: 42°35'21.8"N
87°48'57.2"W Website: KenoshaHistoryCenter.org
Did You Know? The walls at the bottom of the tower are 4 1⁄2 feet thick Milwaukee Cream City brick; they taper off to 2 1⁄2 feet thick at the top, with
the tower's interior staying the same diameter the whole way. There are 72 steps to reach the top of the lighthouse.
90. North Pier Lighthouse
Year Built: 1906 Tower Height: 50' Tours: No Stay at the light? No GPS Coordinates: 42°35'21.3"N
87°48'30.8"W Did You Know? The North Pier
Lighthouse is a functioning lighthouse, but is privately owned and serves as an artist workshop known as the Kenosha Lighthouse Studio. The lighthouse is sometimes referred to as the Pierhead Lighthouse or the Red Lighthouse because of its iconic location and color.
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Tours:Yes Stayatthelight?Yes 64 65 GPS Coordinates: 44°59'28.7"N
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23. Charlevoix South Pier Lighthouse
Year Built: 1948 Tower Height: 41' Tours: No Stay at the light? No GPS Coordinates: 45°19'12.8"N
Did You Know? The lighthouse is
owned by the City of Charlevoix and
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Year Built: 1851 Tower Height: 63'
Tours: No Stay at the light? No
GPS Coordinates: 45°47'10.2"N Milwaukee 85
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Did You Know? In 1943, in the midst 86
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Year Built: 1869 Tower Height: 38'
Tours: Yes Stay at the light? Yes
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Did You Know? Near the shore below
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Year Built: 1929 Tower Height: 53' Tours: No Stay at the light? No GPS Coordinates: 45°41'41.2"N
Did You Know? The first navigational 101102 103 aid here was a lightship placed in 1892. Gary
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maintain and could remain all year. You
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6. Grand Haven Lighthouse, Grand Haven
7. Muskegon South Pierhead Light, Muskegon
8. White River Light Station, Whitehall
9. Little Sable Point Lighthouse, Silver Lake/Mears
10. Pentwater Pierhead Lights, Pentwater
11. Ludington North Breakwater Light, Ludington
12. Big Sable Point Lighthouse, Ludington State Park
13. Manistee North Pierhead Lighthouse, Manistee
14. Portage Lake North Pierhead, Onekama
15. Frankfort North Breakwater Light, Frankfort
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101. Old Indiana Harbor Light, East Chicago 102. Buffington Harbor Breakwater Lighthouse,
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78. Rawley Point Lighthouse, Two Rivers
79. North Pier Lighthouse, Two Rivers
80. Manitowoc Breakwater Lighthouse, Manitowoc 81. Sheboygan Breakwater Lighthouse, Sheboygan 82. 1860 Light Station, Port Washington
83. Pierhead Light, Port Washington
84. Kevich Light, Grafton
85. North Point Lighthouse, Milwaukee
86. Milwaukee Pierhead Light, Milwaukee
87. Wind Point Lighthouse, Wind Point
88. Racine North Breakwater Lighthouse, Racine 89. Southport Light Station, Kenosha
90. Kenosha Pierhead Light, Kenosha
Year Built: 1865 Tower Height: 40' 16. Point Betsie Lighthouse, Frankfort
Tours: No Stay at the light? No 17. Robert H. Manning Memorial Light, Empire
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the peninsula naturally collects 20. South Fox Island Lighthouse, Northport monarch butterflies at its tip each fall 21. Grand Traverse Lighthouse, Northport
before they continue south across Lake
Michigan on their annual migration. 22. Mission Point Lighthouse, Traverse City Visitors can climb the tower for views 23. Charlevoix South Pier Lighthouse, Charlevoix of the surrounding waters and spotting 24. Beaver Island Head Light, Beaver Island migrating birds and butterflies. 25. Paradise Bay Harbor Light, Beaver Island Information courtesy LighthouseFriends.com 26. Petoskey Lighthouse, Petoskey
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Year Built: 1868 Tower Height: 44'9"
Tours: No Stay at the light? No
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Did You Know? With the nearby 33. St. Helena Island Lighthouse, Mackinaw City channel referred to as "Strawberry 34. Waugoshance Shoal Light, Mackinaw City Passage," the area around Chambers 35. McGulpin Point Lighthouse, Mackinaw City Island was known for its strawberries. 36. Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse, Mackinaw City The first lighthouse keeper here
cultivated a large strawberry patch,
occasionally treating visitors to pie or
strawberries and cream.
Information courtesy LighthouseFriends.com
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Point Betsie Lighthouse 16 in Frankfort is a beautiful place to catch the sunset on Lake Michigan. Photo courtesy of Michael Mullin.
37. Cheboygan River Front Range Light Station, Cheboygan 38. Cheboygan Crib Light, Cheboygan
39. Old Cheboygan Lighthouse, Cheboygan (Ruins)
40. Fourteen Foot Shoal Lighthouse, Cheboygan
41. Poe Reef Lighthouse, Cheboygan
42. Spectacle Reef Lighthouse, Rogers City
43. Martin Reef Light Station, Cedarville
44. Bois Blanc Island Lighthouse, Bois Blanc Island
45. Round Island Light, Round Island
46. Round Island Passage Light, Round Island Channel
Michigan:
Upper Peninsula Lights 47. Point Iroquois Lighthouse, Brimley
48. Whitefish Point Light Station, Paradise
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52. St. Martin Island Lighthouse, Garden
53. Peninsula Point Lighthouse, Rapid River
54. Eleven Foot Shoal, Escanaba
55. Minneapolis Shoal Light, Escanaba
56. Sand Point Lighthouse, Escanaba
57. Escanaba Crib Light, Escanaba
58. Cedar River Lighthouse, Escanaba
59. Menominee North Pier Light, Menominee
Wisconsin Lights
60. Chambers Island Lighthouse, Fish Creek
61. Green Island Lighthouse, Peshtigo (Ruins)
62. Peshtigo Reef Lighthouse, Peshtigo
63. Long Tail Point Lighthouse, Suamico (Ruins)
64. Grassy Island Range Lights, Green Bay
65. Green Bay Harbor Entrance Lighthouse, Scott
66. Sherwood Point Lighthouse, Sturgeon Bay
67. Eagle Bluff Lighthouse, Fish Creek
68. Boyers Bluff Lighthouse, Washington
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71. Pilot Island Lighthouse, Ellison Bay
72. Cana Island Lighthouse, Baileys Harbor
73. Baileys Harbor Lighthouse, Baileys Harbor
74. Baileys Harbor Range Lights, Baileys Harbor
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Algoma Pierhead Lighthouse, Algoma Kewaunee Pierhead Lighthouse, Kewaunee
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103. Gary Breakwater Lighthouse
Year Built: 1911 Tower Height: 30' Tours: No Stay at the light? No GPS Coordinates: 41°37'49.4"N
87°19'13.3"W Did You Know? The lighthouse was removed for a period in 2017 so it could be sandblasted, repaired, and repainted. As the area surrounding
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104. Michigan City East Pierhead Light Year Built: 1904 Tower Height: 49' Tours: No Stay at the light? No GPS Coordinates: 4816°4534'442.40"NW
Website: eMichiganCity.com
Did You Know? The original fifth order Fresnel lens has been replaced with a modern plastic optic; however the original is available for viewing at the museum in the Old Michigan City Lighthouse.
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27. Little Traverse Lighthouse, Harbor Springs
28. Squaw Island Lighthouse, Squaw Island
29. Lansing Shoal Light, Newton Township
30. Skillagalee Lighthouse, Ile Aux Galets
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93. Wilson Avenue Crib Lighthouse, Chicago
94. William E. Dever Crib Light, Chicago
95. Chicago Harbor Lighthouse, Chicago
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Breakwater: An offshore structure used to protect a harbor or beach from the force of the waves.
Catwalk: A narrow elevated walkway, allowing the keeper access to light towers built out in the water. Daymark: Unique color, pattern,
or architecture of towers and other markers used by navigators to mark their location during the day.
Gallery: Outdoor railed walkway encircling the watch room where
the keeper sat and monitored the lantern and weather conditions.
Pier: A structure extending into navigable water for use as a landing place, or to protect or form a harbor. Range Lights: Used by mariners to fix their position in open water and guide them into port. Range lights usually appear in pairs and are 1000 feet apart. Shoal: A shallow area, such as a sandbar or rock formation.
Tower: A raised skeletal or walled structure with a light signal device at the top. Lighthouse Glossary reprinted with permission from
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Circle Tour
Vacationers have been looping the lake for generations, but the official Lake Michigan Circle Tour route was not established until 1987, when the Michigan Department of Transportation teamed up with the West Michigan Tourist Association to create the route and, the following year, the official guidebook.
Working in conjunction with the Michigan Department of Transportation, the West Michigan Tourist Association helped to make the first of the official Great Lakes Circle Tours a reality, and the first publication was released in 1988 as a 52-page guide book. The guide book was transformed into a map in 2007, and the driving route can now be found online at WMTA.org/Lake-Michigan- Lighthouse-Map-Circle-Tour.
The official Lake Michigan Circle Tour route is designated by green “Circle Tour” signs placed at 10 mile intervals. Whenever you spot a brown “Harbor Tour” sign along the route, it’s your signal to take a side trip to explore one of the dozens of port communities along the Lake Michigan shore.
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