New Jersey Lighthouse Listings

New Jersey Lighthouse Listings
This is a listing of the Lighthouses you can visit with your family in and around Cape May County NJ

Cape May Lighthouse
Local History Museum
215 Light House Ave, Cape May Point, NJ 08212
(609) 224-6066

Climb 199 steps in this 1859 structure to the watch gallery for a panoramic view of the Jersey Cape & Delaware Bay! The Cape May Lighthouse is located at Cape May Point State Park.

Tickets:
Adults $8.00
Children $5.00

Hours:
Thursday 11AM–3PM
Friday 11AM–3PM
Saturday 11AM–3PM
Sunday 11AM–3PM
Monday 11AM–3PM
Tuesday 11AM–3PM
Wednesday 11AM–3PM

Hereford Inlet Lighthouse

Lighthouse
111 N Central Ave, Wildwood, NJ 08260
(609) 522-4520

OUR ADMISSION FEES:
Adults 12 yrs. and up $5.00
11 yrs. and under $2.00

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.
Hours:
Thursday 10AM–2PM
Friday 10AM–2PM
Saturday 10AM–2PM
Sunday 10AM–2PM
Monday Closed
Tuesday Closed
Wednesday 10AM–2PM

Absecon Lighthouse
Historical Landmark
31 S Rhode Island Ave, Atlantic City, NJ 08401
(609) 449-1360

ABSECON LIGHTHOUSE IS:

New Jersey’s tallest Lighthouse, 171 feet tall
The country’s third tallest Lighthouse
150 years old, 1857-2007
Located in Atlantic City
Open for climbing!
CLICK HERE to See A Live View From the Top of Absecon Lighthouse!

Cost to Climb the Lighthouse:
Free Parking and Admission To the Keeper’s House Museum, Exhibits and Grounds!

$7 to climb
$5 for seniors 65+ to climb
$4 for children ages 4-12 to climb
$3 Atlantic City residents with ID to climb
Active military & kids under 4 free
Dogs on leashes are welcome on the grounds and in the museum.
Rack cards and other coupons ONLY apply to the climbing rate.

Hours:
Thursday 11AM–4PM
Friday 11AM–4PM
Saturday 11AM–4PM
Sunday 11AM–4PM
Monday 11AM–4PM
Tuesday Closed
Wednesday Closed

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Barnegat Lighthouse

Barnegat Light is located at the northern end of Long Beach Island. This quaint little borough of less than one square mile has a winter population of a little more than 700 and hasn’t changed much over the last century.

Address: 208 Broadway, Barnegat Light, NJ 08006

Fee: $3 per person ages 12 and older; $1 per person ages 6 to 11; children under 5 free
Fees are in effect beginning Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day.

Hours:

Saturday	8AM–4PM
Sunday	8AM–4PM
Monday	8AM–4PM
Tuesday	8AM–4PM
Wednesday	8AM–4PM
Thursday	8AM–4PM
Friday	8AM–4PM

Phone: (609) 494-2016

Navesink Twin Lights Lighthouse

2 Light House Rd, Highlands, NJ 07732

Height: 73′ Opened: 1862

Hours:

Saturday	10AM–4:30PM
Sunday	10AM–4:30PM
Monday	Closed
Tuesday	Closed
Wednesday	10AM–4:30PM
Thursday	10AM–4:30PM
Friday	10AM–4:30PM

Architect: Joseph Lederle

Phone: (732) 872-1814

Sandy Hook Lighthouse

The Sandy Hook Lighthouse is the oldest operating lighthouse in the United States. It is located at the northern end of the Sandy Hook Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area in Atlantic Highlands. Amazingly well-preserved, this unique octagonal tower dates back to the 18th century and has been in service since 1764. Except for being darkened during the Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I and II, the beacon has been operating ever since. The National Park Service owns the tower and the U.S. Coast Guard maintains the light. The lighthouse is open to the public weekends April – Oct., noon – 4:30 pm., Nov. – mid Dec., noon – 4:30 pm, weekdays in July and Aug., 1 pm – 4:30 pm. Tours and talks are presented by members of the New Jersey Lighthouse Society.Call the Visitor’s Center for more information. Free admission. (732) 872-5970. The lighthouse is on the grounds of Fort Hancock and is just one of the unbeatable tourist attractions at Sandy Hook. The peninsula also boasts a spectacular holly forest, excellent surf fishing, hiking, beaches, trails, salt marshes, more than 300 species of birds and other historical sites.

Address: 85 Mercer Rd, Highlands, NJ 07732

Height: 103′

Hours:

Saturday	1–4:30PM
Sunday	1–4:30PM
Monday	1–4:30PM
Tuesday	1–4:30PM
Wednesday	1–4:30PM
Thursday	1–4:30PM
Friday	1–4:30PM

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Phone: (732) 291-4777

Architect: Isaac Conro

Did you know: In 1964, the lighthouse celebrated its 200th Anniversary.njlhs.org

Sea Girt Lighthouse

Nestled within an L-shaped Victorian building, the Sea Girt Lighthouse first shone in 1896.Like most lighthouses of the day, its fourth-order Fresnel lens revolved on ball bearing driven by complex clockworks.With just one winding, the light turned for 7 1/2 hours, turning red for two seconds out of six.

Originally built to bridge the 40-mile gap between Barnegat Light and the Twin Lights of Navesink, this square red bricktower attached to a keeper’s dwelling was decommissioned in1945. The interior of the lighthouse has been meticulously restored by a local citizens committee and furnished in keeping with its historical period.

Open Sun. 2 pm – 4 pm the week after Easter to the week after Thanksgiving. Closed on major holidays. Free admission. Donations welcome. 732-974-0514.

Address: 9 Ocean Ave, Sea Girt, NJ 08750

Hours:

Saturday	Closed
Sunday	2–4PM
Monday	Closed
Tuesday	Closed
Wednesday	Closed
Thursday	Closed
Friday	Closed

Phone: (732) 974-0514

Tucker’s Beach Lighthouse

Tucker’s Beach (Replica) Lighthouse

Reuben Tucker purchased the southern portion of Long Beach Island in 1765, around the time when people from Philadelphia and Burlington County first started regular visits to the Jersey Shore, bringing their own supplies and typically setting up tents on the beach. Reuben Tucker realized he could make some extra money by offering more comfortable accommodations, and his farmhouse soon doubled as an inn. Following Reuben’s death, his widow, “Mammy” Tucker, continued the inn-keeping tradition, and it wasn’t long before a small community called Tucker’s Beach was established. Mammy Tucker’s Inn was later replaced by the larger Columbia Hotel, and with the addition of the four-story St. Albans Hotel, Tucker’s Beach had become an ocean resort.Sometime around 1800, the ocean cut an inlet between Holgate and Tucker’s Beach, and Tucker’s Beach was now also Tucker’s Island. A lighthouse was added to the island in 1848 to guide traffic into Little Egg Harbor, located west of the barrier island. A brick tower, known both as Little Egg Harbor Lighthouse and Tucker’s Beach Lighthouse, displayed a fixed red light using an array of fifteen lamps set in fifteen-inch reflectors, and a one-and-a-half-story dwelling was built nearby for the keeper.

Tuckerton Seaport & Baymen’s Museum
120 West Main Street
PO Box 52
Tuckerton, NJ 08087
609-296-8868

Open Every Day: 10am-4pm
Last museum admission: 2:30pm

Admission: Adults: $9
Seniors: $6
Children ages 5-12: $5
Children under 5 and Seaport members: free
Active Military & Immediate Family: Free
Veteran and 1 guest: Free

East Point Lighthouse

The East Point Light, known as the Maurice River Light before 1913, is a lighthouse located in Heislerville, New Jersey on Delaware Bay at the mouth of the Maurice River in Maurice River Township, Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States.

Address: 10 Lighthouse Rd, Heislerville, NJ 08324

Height: 40′ Opened: 1849

Phone: (856) 785-0349

Finn’s Point Range Lighthouse

Finn’s Point Rear Range Light is located in Pennsville Township, Salem County, New Jersey, United States. The range light was built in 1876 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 30, 1978.

Address: Fort Mott & Lighthouse Rds, Pennsville, NJ 08070

Opened: 1876

Phone: (856) 935-3218

Tower shape: Skeletal tower

Finns Point Rear Range Lighthouse and Gift Shop will be open on the following dates from 1 PM until 4 PM:
April 15, 2018
May 20, 2018
June 17, 2018
July 15, 2018**
August 19, 2018 **
September 16, 2018
October 20-21, 2018
** The lighthouse will not be open for climbing if the temperature/humidity are exceptionally high.

Tinicum Island Range Lighthouse

*LIGHTHOUSE TEMPORARILY CLOSED DUE TO COAST GUARD MAINTENANCE*

*LIGHTHOUSE EXPECTED TO RE-OPEN AUGUST 2018*

First lit on New Year’s Eve in 1880, this light pairs with the Tinicum Front Range Light to serve as a key guide for ships heading north along the Delaware River toward ports at Philadelphia and Camden. Its fixed red light and 1,000-watt lamps exhibit 500,000 candlepower from atop an 85-foot-high tower. Located on the corner of Mantua and Second streets in Paulsboro.

Open the third Sunday of each month April – Oct., 12 Noon – 4 pm.

Free admission: donations requested.

The Tinicum Island Rear Range Light is a lighthouse located in the Billingsport section of Paulsboro, Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States, the rear of a pair of range lights marking a section

Address: 2nd St, Paulsboro, NJ 08066

Height: 85′ Opened: 1880

Phone: (856) 423-1505

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