Are you ready for the New Jersey Lighthouse Challenge this Weekend?
The New Jersey Lighthouses and select museums happily announce that they are again hosting New Jersey Lighthouse Challenge weekend on October 21st & 22nd, 2017. Visitors can enjoy an opportunity to tour the state and visit each lighthouse over the weekend, and help raise needed funds for the continued preservation of our treasured landmarks.
For full information on timing and pricing, click HERE. Night climbs are being offered at Absecon, Cape May, & Tuckerton from 6pm to 8pm on Saturday.
New for 2017! Food trucks will be available at the following sites: Absecon Lighthouse; Cape May, Sandy Hook & Tuckerton Seaport. Ocean City Life Saving Station will be open and all renovations are complete. East Point Lighthouse has completed restorations and will be open for climbing. Finn’s Point will also be open.
For additional information on New Jersey Lighthouses, click HERE
Lighthouses Available to Visit During the New Jersey Lighthouse Challenge Weekend:
Absecon Lighthouse (Atlantic County)
Address: 31 S Rhode Island Ave, Atlantic City, NJ
Absecon Lighthouse is the tallest lighthouse in New Jersey, and the third tallest in the country! It has a whomping 171 feet tall and takes you 228 steps to get to the top. Once you reach the top, you’ll get beautiful views of Atlantic City and the Atlantic Ocean PLUS it’s the only lighthouse in New Jersey with its original first-order Fresnel Lens still in place.
Cape May Lighthouse (Cape May County)
Address: 215 Light House Ave, Cape May Point, NJ
Located on the southern tip of New Jersey, Cape May Point State Park is a key site on the NJ Coastal Heritage Trail, with an environmental center that houses a classroom for interpretive programs and a museum on the area’s natural and historic features. The 157-foot-high lighthouse is still an aid to navigation. Visitors who climb the 199 steps to the top of the lighthouse are rewarded with a spectacular panoramic view of the scenic Cape May peninsula.
Hereford Inlet Lighthouse (Cape May County)
Address: 105 N Central Ave, North Wildwood, NJ
Hereford Inlet Lighthouse is a working lighthouse as well as a museum. It is open to the public for guided and self guided tours. Visitors will learn about the History of Hereford and get a glimpse of the life of a lighthouse keeper in the late 19th and early 20th century.A park surrounding the Lighthouse is designed with many different garden areas containing over 200 plant varieties. The Hereford Inlet Lighthouse Gardens are planted in the Victorian cottage style and extend right up to the ocean seawall. They have won several awards, including the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Suburban Greening Award.
East Point Lighthouse (Cumberland County)
Address: 10 Lighthouse Rd, Heislerville, NJ
The East Point Light, known as the Maurice River Light before 1913, is a lighthouse located in Heislerville on Delaware Bay at the mouth of the Maurice River.
Tinicum Rear Range Lighthouse (Gloucester County)
Address: 2nd St, Paulsboro, NJ
The historic Tinicum Rear Range Lighthouse is located at Second Street and Mantua Ave in Paulsboro, New Jersey, along the shores of the Delaware River. The lighthouse is a steel skeletal structure standing 85 feet tall with 112 steps leading from the neoclassical pavilion at the base of the tower to the lantern room. Directly below the lantern room is the watch room, which has a unique wood lined closet that curves along the circular outer wall of the tower. Along with the light tower was a keeper’s dwelling, consisting of seven rooms, brick oil house, frame barn and barnyard, cow shed, poultry house and privy situated on 4.8 acres of land.
Sandy Hook Lighthouse (Monmouth County)
Address: 85 Mercer Rd, Highlands, NJ
The Sandy Hook Lighthouse, located about one and a half statute miles inland from the tip of Sandy Hook, New Jersey, is the oldest working lighthouse in the United States
Sea Girt Lighthouse (Monmouth County)
Address: 9 Ocean Ave, Sea Girt, NJ
Sea Girt Lighthouse is the last live-in lighthouse built on the Atlantic Coast. Sea Girt Lighthouse was built, on the orders of the U.S. Light-House Board, in 1896 to illuminate a dark spot midway in the 38½-mile stretch between the Navesink and Barnegat Lighthouses.
Twin Lights of Navesink (Monmouth County)
Address: 2 Light House Rd, Highlands, NJ
Situated 200 feet above sea level atop the Navesink Highlands, Twin Lights has stood as a sentinel over the treacherous coastal waters of northern New Jersey since 1828. Named Navesink Lightstation, it became known as the “Twin Lights of Highlands” to those who used its mighty beacons to navigate
Barnegat Lighthouse (Ocean County)
Address: 208 Broadway, Barnegat Light, NJ
Barnegat Lighthouse State Park is located on the northern tip of Long Beach Island. It will take you 217 steps to get to the top where you can you’ll get a panoramic view of Island Beach, Barnegat Bay, and Long Beach Island.
Tuckerton Seaport and Baymen’s Museum (Ocean County)
Address: 120 W Main St, Tuckerton, NJ
The Tucker’s Island Lighthouse features exhibits on privateers and pirates of the Jersey Coast, Tuckerton designated as a third Port of Entry at the start of a new nation for receipt and departure of intra and international trade and travel, the origins of the U.S. Life Saving Service, shipwrecks and the Jersey Shore’s first resort.
Finns Point Near Range Light (Salem County)
Address: Fort Mott & Lighthouse Rds, Pennsville, NJ
This 1876 wrought iron lighthouse is listed on the National Registry of Historic Places. Originally constructed in Buffalo, New York and then moved here by train and mule-wagon, this unusual wrought-iron, open-frame, lighthouse was built at a cost of $1,200 in 1876. Standing 115 feet tall, it featured a 24-inch range lens with double wick burner and kerosene vapor lamp emitting 150,000 candlepower. Close by is Fort Mott State Park, a 104-acre waterfront park with buildings and gun emplacements from the Spanish – American War
Plus!
U.S. Life Saving Station 30, Ocean City
Tatham Life Saving Station, Stone Harbor
