Point Arena Lighthouse
Point Arena Lighthouse is a lighthouse in California, at a recorded elevation of 11 m. Grizzly Peak stands 894 m to the east, 25 miles off. 92 named places lie within 25 miles, 23 of them named summits.
The original 1870 lighthouse was destroyed in the 1906 Earthquake. This tower built in 1908 is the first California lighthouse to use reinforced concrete, be better withstand earthquakes.
The story
Point Arena Light is a lighthouse in Mendocino County, California, United States, two miles (3 km) north of Point Arena, California. It is approximately 130 mi (210 km) north of San Francisco, in the Fort Point Group of lighthouses. The lighthouse features a small museum and gift shop. Guided tours of the light station as well as self-guided tours of the grounds are available daily.
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Dates from 1870.
Wikidata Q7207938, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Built
- 1870
- Height
- 35 m
- Elevation
- 011 m
What to expect
How to reach it
92 named places within 25 miles
- Bald Hill: 6.4 mi
- Eureka Hill: 10.9 mi
- Cold Spring Mountain: 12.6 mi
- Sugarloaf: 14.1 mi
- Buck Peak: 14.8 mi
- Stoneboro Beach: 2.6 mi
- Bowling Ball Beach: 7.3 mi
- Schooner Gulch State Beach: 7.5 mi
- Fish Rock Beach: 13.6 mi
- Cooks Beach: 14.9 mi
- Bower Park: 15.7 mi
- Indian Creek County Park: 17.9 mi
- Faulkner County Park: 18.4 mi
- Children's Environmental Play Park: 18.4 mi
- One-Eyed Jacks: 20.9 mi
- Arena Rock Marine Natural Preserve: 1.6 mi
- Greenwood State Beach: 12.0 mi
- Navarro River Redwoods State Park: 15.8 mi
- Hendy Woods State Park: 16.5 mi
- Gualala Point Regional Park: 17.7 mi
- Point Arena Arch: 1.2 mi
- Hitch'n Post: 2.3 mi
- Devils Pitchfork: 12.2 mi
- Wharf Rock East Arch: 12.2 mi
- Wharf Rock West Arch: 12.2 mi
- Point Arena Lighthouse: 0.0 mi
- Fifteen Japanese from Yawatahama: 3.2 mi
- Hermit Hut: 16.4 mi
- Harold J. Alexander Tree: 17.5 mi
- The Bane Bill: 20.0 mi
- Fog Signal Building: 0.0 mi
- Greenwood Visitor Center Museum: 12.2 mi
- Anderson Valley History Museum: 19.7 mi
- Little River Improvement Club & Museum: 22.4 mi
- Ford House Visitors Center: 24.4 mi
- Soda Spring: 10.7 mi
- Three Springs: 12.3 mi
- Cold Spring: 12.8 mi
- Summit Spring: 14.2 mi
- Laurel Spring: 23.5 mi
- B Bryan Preserve: 4.0 mi
- Newgard Bluff: 15.4 mi
- Huckleberry Hollow: 17.5 mi
- Playing With Auntie (Totem 7 of 8): 22.0 mi
- Community Gardens: 24.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Point Arena Lighthouse. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grizzly Peak | E 87° | 894 m | 24.8 mi |
| Cold Spring Mountain | ENE 68° | 815 m | 12.6 mi |
| Buck Peak | E 90° | 810 m | 14.8 mi |
| Gube Mountain | ESE 108° | 765 m | 23.9 mi |
| Hawk Butte | E 91° | 760 m | 24.3 mi |
| Snook Mountain | ESE 109° | 743 m | 23.7 mi |
| Cow Mountain | ENE 65° | 737 m | 22.8 mi |
| Eureka Hill | ESE 107° | 662 m | 10.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:19 | 18:52 | 19:27 |
| June solstice | 05:50 | 20:05 | 20:45 |
| September equinox | 07:03 | 18:38 | 19:14 |
| December solstice | 07:31 | 16:15 | 16:57 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Point Arena, under a mileaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
National Register of Historic Places, reference 90002189OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site- National Register of Historic Places — Point Arena Light Station, reference 90002189, listed 07/16/91.
OpenStreetMap element way/486123341
Day trips start here
- Mendocino County · 19 mi
- Boonville · 20 mi
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