Point Reyes Lighthouse
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Point Reyes Lighthouse is a lighthouse in California, at a modelled elevation of 90 m. Mount Tamalpais East Peak stands 784 m to the east, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Power House, a lighthouse less than a tenth of a mile away. 244 named places lie within 25 miles, 51 of them named summits.
The story
The Point Reyes Lighthouse, also known as Point Reyes Light or the Point Reyes Light Station, is a lighthouse in the Gulf of the Farallones on Point Reyes in Point Reyes National Seashore, located in Marin County, California, United States. The park's adjacent Lighthouse Visitor Center features exhibits about the lighthouse and the park's marine life and natural history. Visitors can climb about 300 steps down to the lighthouse itself, weather permitting. The main chamber of the lighthouse, known as the Lens Room, features the Fresnel lens and clockwork mechanism, and is open to the public on a limited basis.
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Dates from 1870.
Wikidata Q779685, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Built
- 1870
- Height
- 10.7 m
What to expect
How to reach it
244 named places within 25 miles
- Limatour Estero Reserve: 6.5 mi
- Tomales Bay State Park: 11.5 mi
- Second Valley Path and Open Space: 11.6 mi
- Martinelli Park: 11.7 mi
- Point Reyes Station Community Park: 12.8 mi
- Point Reyes Hill: 10.2 mi
- Mount Vision: 10.4 mi
- Mount Wittenberg: 11.4 mi
- Firtop: 13.5 mi
- Black Mountain: 15.2 mi
- Drakes Beach: 3.8 mi
- Sunshine Beach: 6.0 mi
- North Beach: 6.2 mi
- Point Reyes Beach: 6.6 mi
- South Beach: 7.0 mi
- Point Reyes National Seashore: 9.0 mi
- Tomales Bay Ecological Reserve: 12.2 mi
- North Farallon Islands State Marine Reserve: 14.4 mi
- Martin Griffin Preserve: 19.2 mi
- Gary Giacomini Open Space Preserve: 19.2 mi
- Francis Drake: 2.5 mi
- Point Reyes Lifeboat Station: 2.7 mi
- Francis Drake memorial: 4.0 mi
- Golden Hinde landing: 5.2 mi
- Probably repair location of Golden Hind June 1579: 7.1 mi
- Bear Valley Picnic area: 12.6 mi
- Redwood Grove Group Picnic Area: 15.9 mi
- Azalea Picnic Area: 16.0 mi
- Irving Group Picnic Area: 16.4 mi
- Hunt Camp: 19.0 mi
- Alamere Falls: 13.4 mi
- Stairstep Falls: 16.6 mi
- Roy's Riffles: 19.7 mi
- Little Carson Falls: 20.7 mi
- Cataract Falls: 21.6 mi
- Cypress Tree Tunnel: 8.0 mi
- Point Reyes Shipwrecks: 11.7 mi
- Kule Loklo: 12.5 mi
- Tule Elk Reserve, Pierce Pt., Pt. Reyes NS: 13.8 mi
- Leo T. Cronin Fish Viewing Area: 17.1 mi
- Crystal Springs: 16.7 mi
- Broko Spring: 21.7 mi
- Red Rock Spring: 22.7 mi
- Rock Springs: 23.1 mi
- Colier Spring: 23.8 mi
- Historic USCG Boathouse: 2.7 mi
- The Jack Mason Museum of West Marin History: 11.6 mi
- The Phoenix Collection Tea Museum: 17.5 mi
- Bolinas Museum: 19.4 mi
- Marin Museum of Bicycling: 23.6 mi
- Power House: 0.0 mi
- Transformer Building: 0.0 mi
- Point Reyes Lighthouse Visitor Center: 0.2 mi
- Paint Storage: 0.2 mi
- Point Reyes Light Station: 0.3 mi
- San Geronimo Valley Community Garden: 19.8 mi
- TRACEN Community Gardens: 21.5 mi
- Inn at the Tides Sculpture Garden: 23.1 mi
- Ren Brown Gallery Zen Garden: 23.7 mi
- Indian Valley Organic Farm and Garden: 24.5 mi
- Whale Ballet (Totem 6 of 8): 21.9 mi
- Scuba Brown: 22.9 mi
- Frolicking Dolphin: 23.0 mi
- Poseidon: 23.0 mi
- Spawn: 23.1 mi
- Keyhole: 11.5 mi
- Temple: 12.0 mi
- Arch Rock: 20.3 mi
- Tomales Bluff: 16.9 mi
- Vent 5: 23.5 mi
- Steep Ravine Hot Spring: 22.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Point Reyes Lighthouse. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Tamalpais East Peak | E 101° | 784 m | 24.7 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais West Peak | ESE 102° | 778 m | 23.7 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais Middle Peak | E 101° | 744 m | 24.1 mi |
| Ballou Point | ESE 105° | 612 m | 22.5 mi |
| Twin Knolls | ESE 103° | 597 m | 22.0 mi |
| Big Rock Ridge | E 79° | 575 m | 23.2 mi |
| Pine Mountain | E 94° | 543 m | 20.2 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais West Point | ESE 103° | 527 m | 24.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:16 | 18:50 | 19:24 |
| June solstice | 05:51 | 19:59 | 20:39 |
| September equinox | 07:01 | 18:36 | 19:11 |
| December solstice | 07:25 | 16:15 | 16:57 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jan–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 50 | 51 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 55 | 57 | 57 | 58 | 56 | 53 | 50 |
| Precip in | 5.3 | 6.0 | 3.9 | 2.2 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 1.8 | 2.9 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bodega 6 WSW, 23 mi away.
Mean tidal range 3.91 ft at the nearest NOAA station.
NOAA CO-OPS station Point Reyes, CA, 3 miaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
National Register of Historic Places, reference 91001100OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/274178212
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