I have always been fascinated with lighthouses for as long as I can remember. In 1985 I was visiting a high school friend who was in the Air Force and stationed in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. While there I asked her if she could take me in to Maine so I would be able to take my first picture of a lighthouse. We about the middle of the State without spotting a lighthouse so we stopped to ask directions. Come to find out there is a lighthouse right across the New Hampshire/Maine border so we headed back. We couldn’t have timed it any better as the sun was just going down and I was able to take a beautiful picture of the Nubble Lighthouse. The picture was awarded second place in my local county fair. Before I left New Hampshire my friend presented me with my first lighthouse collectible and as they say “The rest is history” as now my lighthouse collection is huge and growing.

The first lighthouse I was able to go inside and up to the Fresnel lens was the Point Arena Lighthouse in California in the area near Fort Bragg. This lighthouse is very special to me as I was with my dad when we went up, and he since has passed away in 1992. Since Point Arena Lighthouse and moving to Oregon I have been inside numerous lighthouses, and this is my story of the Lights of Oregon. There is a page for each lighthouse and I’m putting them in the order of south to north. These are all my pictures with the exception of Cape Meares and Tillamook Rock lighthouses. I have taken pictures of them however they are still in a packed box so as soon as I find them I will replace the ones I’m using. The link to the sites where I was able to get these pictures will be underneath the photo if you’d like to visit them.

Click on maps to go to the sites where I obtained them

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