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The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is seeking input on what to do with the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area’s infrastructure, particularly former Coast Guard buildings.
The lighthouse is maintained by the Coast Guard. The buildings are a hostel with dorm-style rooms, some single and family rooms and a communal kitchen. Rates start at $25 and go up to $63.
The historic Great Lakes lighthouses are being offered to new owners because the U.S. Coast Guard doesn't need to keep them ...
Exploring a historic lighthouse in the Central Coast beach community of Avila Beach sounds like an enchanting adventure already. Add in a kayaking tour to access the 125-year-old, fully-restored ...
ON THE ROCKY BOTTOM OF DEATH’S Door, a narrow strait in the Wisconsin peninsula that juts into Lake Michigan, lie 128 shipwrecks and one rusting Volkswagen Bug.The shipwrecks are from the age of ...
The Coast Guard assumed responsibility for the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse site in 1939, and other military branches – notably the Navy, which intercepted German U-Boat signals from a station on ...
The picturesque lighthouse near the East Bay Bike Path was abandoned for decades, but has been meticulously restored to its ...
There are 11 lighthouses along the Oregon coast, ... Then, in 1936, all but 16 buildings in Bandon were destroyed in a forest fire. The lighthouse was abandoned in 1939, ...
There's something about winter that just seems to go with lighthouses. Maybe it's because the quietly heroic people who maintained them were never so important as when a howling storm blew in, or ...
But it's far from the only lighthouse in Rhode Island. While Michigan has the most lighthouses in the United States, with more than 120 along the Great Lakes, and Maine has the second most at 65, ...