>> Click to enlarge << The new lens at Crisp Point Lighthouse in ...

Thanks to the efforts of dedicated volunteers and donors, Michigan’s Crisp Point Lighthouse again has a beacon in the tower. The nearly three-foot tall ML-300 lens was installed this past November. Starting this year, and every subsequent year, it will be lighted during the shipping season from May 1 to November 1.

>> Click to enlarge << Crisp Point Light Historical Society board member ...

Located on Lake Superior, 14 miles west of Whitefish Point near Paradise, Michigan, the 1904 lighthouse was once on the Lighthouse Digest Doomsday List of Endangered Lighthouses. Threatened by an eroding shoreline, it was literally saved from collapse at the last moment. Photographs courtesy Rock Brockway, Crisp Point Light Historical Society.

>> Click to enlarge << Rick Brockway, president of the Crisp Point Light ...

>> Click to enlarge << November gales like this one last year at Crisp ...

>> Click to enlarge << November gales like this one last year at Crisp ...

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