Location: Entrance to Casco Bay; Nearest town: Cape
Elizabeth
43 33 56 N
70 12 00 W
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Accessibility: The keeper's house is privately
owned; the lighthouse and grounds are not open to the public.
Views are available at the end of Two Lights Road (turn at the
"Two Lights State Park" sign on Route 77, bear right at a fork in the road and follow to the end), but parking
can be difficult in summer.
Station established: 1828; Present lighthouse built:
1874; Automated: 1963
Construction material: Cast iron
Height of tower: 67 feet; Height of focal plane: 129
feet
Earlier optic: Second-order Fresnel (1874), now VRB-25
Characteristic: Four white flashes every 15 seconds
Fog signal: Two blasts every 60 seconds
Other buildings still standing: 1874 west light house
tower (discontinued 1924),1878 keeper's house (remodeled
in 1999), 1886 fog signal building
Active U.S. Coast Guard aid to navigation. The lighthouse
is licensed to the American
Lighthouse Foundation
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