Saybrook Breakwater Light
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Saybrook Breakwater Light is a lighthouse in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 0 m. Mount Archer stands 136 m to the north, 9.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Poverty Island Beach, a beach 1.4 miles away. North Fork Trail passes 8.3 miles off.
The story
Saybrook Breakwater Lighthouse is a sparkplug lighthouse in Connecticut, United States, at Fenwick Point at the mouth of the Connecticut River near Old Saybrook, Connecticut. It is featured on the state's "Preserve the Sound" license plates. "That outer lighthouse is the symbol of Old Saybrook," town First Selectman Michael Pace said in 2007, when the town was making plans to buy the lighthouse from the federal government. The lighthouse is also known simply as "Breakwater Light" or "Outer Light". It is one of two built off Lynde Point in the nineteenth century. The other lighthouse, known as Lynde Point Light or more commonly as "Inner Light", is 75 years older than this lighthouse. The two lighthouses mark the harbor channel at the mouth of the Connecticut River.
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Dates from 1886.
Wikidata Q3378379, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Built
- 1886
- Height
- 14.9 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- U.S. Coast Guard
How to reach it
- 8.3 mi off the North Fork Trail
- 28.0 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- 29.0 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
Overlooks nearby
- Bluff Overlook · 11 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Poverty Island Beach: 1.4 mi
- White Sand Beach: 2.3 mi
- Plum Bank Beach: 2.6 mi
- Harveys Beach: 2.8 mi
- Great Hammock Beach: 2.9 mi
- Fort Saybrook Monument Park: 1.6 mi
- Fort Saybrook Monument Park: 1.6 mi
- Great Island Nature Area: 1.8 mi
- Great Island Boat Launch: 1.9 mi
- Old Saybrook Town Green: 2.5 mi
- Meeting House Hill: 3.3 mi
- Johnnycake Hill: 3.5 mi
- Beacon Hill: 3.7 mi
- Ferry Hill: 3.8 mi
- Jacobs Peak: 3.9 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 3.3 mi
- Westbrook Honor Roll: 5.7 mi
- Westbrook: 5.7 mi
- In Memorium Albert H. Cyphers Sr.: 5.8 mi
- Suellen Kozy McCuin: 5.9 mi
- Nut Museum: 3.5 mi
- Old Lyme Historical Society: 3.9 mi
- Lyme Art Association: 4.3 mi
- Florence Griswold Museum: 4.4 mi
- Westbrook Historical Society Building: 5.7 mi
- Stone Table: 8.6 mi
- Slaves Burying Ground: 9.4 mi
- Parking: 9.5 mi
- Salmon Head Rock: 11.0 mi
- watchtower: 11.2 mi
- Silver Falls: 12.2 mi
- Cascade: 13.3 mi
- Cascade: 13.8 mi
- Cascade: 13.8 mi
- Clark Creek Falls: 14.2 mi
- Memorial Garden: 8.6 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 10.6 mi
- Rock Garden: 12.2 mi
- West Garden: 12.2 mi
- East Garden: 12.2 mi
- Lion Gardner Statue: 1.5 mi
- Monty the T-Rex: 13.3 mi
- James Madison: 13.5 mi
- Nathan Hale Statue: 14.0 mi
- Totem Pole: 14.2 mi
- Candlewood Ledge: 9.0 mi
- Pine Ledge: 10.5 mi
- Ram Head: 13.3 mi
- Crow Head: 15.4 mi
- Hedges Bank: 16.5 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 5.0 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 18.6 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 20.7 mi
- Powder House: 13.1 mi
- Skate Hut: 13.2 mi
- Veterans Memorial Picnic Area: 22.0 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 17.0 mi
- Old Spring: 21.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.2 miles of Saybrook Breakwater Light. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Archer | N 355° | 136 m | 9.7 mi |
| Grassy Hill | NNE 19° | 129 m | 10.1 mi |
| Tower Hill | NW 305° | 126 m | 11.2 mi |
| Nickerson Hill | N 5° | 123 m | 9.4 mi |
| Honey Hill | N 353° | 114 m | 9.2 mi |
| Brown Hill | N 8° | 112 m | 8.6 mi |
| Bushy Hill | NW 312° | 105 m | 9.0 mi |
| Pond Hill | NE 36° | 103 m | 8.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:54 | 18:25 | 19:02 |
| June solstice | 05:17 | 19:45 | 20:27 |
| September equinox | 06:37 | 18:12 | 18:48 |
| December solstice | 07:12 | 15:40 | 16:24 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 32 | 32 | 39 | 50 | 57 | 67 | 75 | 74 | 67 | 57 | 47 | 39 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Orient PT SP, 10 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Saybrook Jetty, CT, under a mileaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
National Register of Historic Places, reference 89001474OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata- National Register of Historic Places — Saybrook Breakwater Lighthouse, reference 89001474, listed 05/29/90.
OpenStreetMap element way/1069791339
Day trips start here
- Old Saybrook · 3 mi
- Old Lyme · 4 mi
- Essex · 7 mi
- East Lyme · 9 mi
- Waterford · 12 mi
- New London · 14 mi
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