Cape Flattery Lighthouse
Cape Flattery Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Washington, at a modelled elevation of 40 m. Stolzenburg Mountain stands 650 m to the southeast, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Fog Signal Building, a lighthouse less than a tenth of a mile away. Strait of Juan de Fuca Highway - SR 112 passes 8.5 miles off. 24 named places lie within 25 miles, 11 of them named summits.
The story
The Cape Flattery Light is a historic lighthouse structure located at the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca near Neah Bay, Clallam County, in the U.S. state of Washington, within the Makah Indian Reservation. The deactivated lighthouse sits on Tatoosh Island, which is named after Chief Tatooche of the Makah Tribe. It is the northwesternmost lighthouse on the West Coast of the contiguous United States. Although closed to the public, it can be viewed from Cape Flattery via a short 30-minute walk.
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Dates from 1854.
Wikidata Q1963379, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Built
- 1857
- Height
- 19 m
How to reach it
- 8.5 mi off the Strait of Juan de Fuca Highway - SR 112, National
- 8.5 mi off the BOUNDARY OF MAKAH INDIAN RES TO VIC LAIRDS CORNER
- 29.1 mi off the JCT SR 109 VIC QUEETS TO JCT SR 5 VIC OLYMPIA
24 named places within 25 miles
- Archawat Peak: 2.8 mi
- Bahokus Peak: 3.1 mi
- Waatch Peak: 7.1 mi
- Cheeka Peak: 8.1 mi
- Makah Peaks: 8.7 mi
- Makah Veterans Memorial: 5.3 mi
- Peter Roose Homestead: 16.0 mi
- Norwegian Memorial: 24.6 mi
- Titacoclos Falls: 1.7 mi
- Titacoclos Falls: 2.0 mi
- Diah Veterans Park - Fort Núñez Gaona: 5.3 mi
- Clallam Bay West County Park: 23.4 mi
- Butler's Nature Museum: 5.8 mi
- Makah Cultural & Research Center: 6.5 mi
- Neah Bay Big Chair: 6.4 mi
- Wedding Rock Petroglyphs: 16.8 mi
- Fog Signal Building: 0.0 mi
- Point of Arches State Park Property: 12.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Cape Flattery Lighthouse. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stolzenburg Mountain | SE 134° | 650 m | 21.0 mi |
| Snag Peak | SE 142° | 617 m | 16.1 mi |
| Tsoo-Yess Peak | SE 138° | 600 m | 10.0 mi |
| Sekiu Mountain | SE 135° | 592 m | 17.4 mi |
| Makah Peaks | SE 141° | 501 m | 8.7 mi |
| Cheeka Peak | SE 141° | 471 m | 8.1 mi |
| Archawat Peak | ESE 120° | 398 m | 2.8 mi |
| Bahokus Peak | ESE 116° | 395 m | 3.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:23 | 18:51 | 19:32 |
| June solstice | 05:18 | 20:35 | 21:25 |
| September equinox | 07:06 | 18:37 | 19:19 |
| December solstice | 08:09 | 15:33 | 16:27 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Tatoosh Island, Cape Flattery, WA, under a mileaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
National Register of Historic Places, reference 72001267OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/234494769
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