Pointe Aux Barques Lifesaving Station
Pointe Aux Barques Lifesaving Station is a museum in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 180 m. The nearest named place is Pointe Aux Barques Lighthouse Museum, a museum less than a tenth of a mile away. 64 named places lie within 25 miles.
Established near this site in 1875, decommissioned in 1956. Six Surfmen perished on April 23, 1880 while responding to a distress signal from the lumber scow J.H MAGRUDER.
What to expect
How to reach it
64 named places within 25 miles
- Lighthouse County Park: 0.1 mi
- Grindstone City Lake Huron Boating Access Access: 5.4 mi
- Quarry Fields: 5.6 mi
- Eagle Bay Public Access: 7.0 mi
- Port Austin Tower Park: 10.0 mi
- Pointe Aux Barques Lighthouse Museum: 0.0 mi
- Schoolhouse: 13.5 mi
- Old North Park Pavilion: 13.5 mi
- Grice Museum Complex: 13.5 mi
- Grice House: 13.5 mi
- Turnip Rock: 8.8 mi
- Boardwalk: 16.0 mi
- Boardwalk: 16.1 mi
- Boardwalk: 16.1 mi
- Boardwalk: 16.3 mi
- Kernan Memorial Nature Sanctuary: 3.0 mi
- Thelma Sonnenberg Memorial Plant Preserve: 3.4 mi
- Port Austin Conservation Club: 9.0 mi
- Huron County Nature Center: 16.1 mi
- Rush Lake State Game Area: 19.6 mi
- Rubicon Beach: 8.0 mi
- Port Crescent Beach: 14.1 mi
- Bathing Beach Park: 14.6 mi
- Vicki Keith: 14.5 mi
- Memorial Rose Garden: 19.4 mi
- The Butterfly Garden: 10.0 mi
- Port Austin Reef Light: 10.2 mi
- Forever Soaring: 22.5 mi
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:35 | 19:06 | 19:44 |
| June solstice | 05:49 | 20:34 | 21:18 |
| September equinox | 07:19 | 18:52 | 19:31 |
| December solstice | 08:04 | 16:09 | 16:56 |
Local time (America/Detroit).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 25 | 25 | 32 | 43 | 53 | 64 | 69 | 69 | 63 | 52 | 40 | 31 |
| Precip in | 1.7 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 3.0 | 2.9 | 2.5 | 2.8 | 3.4 | 2.9 | 3.3 | 2.4 | 2.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Port Hope, under a mile away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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