Location: Easternmost point in the U.S., Bay of Fundy.
Nearest town: Lubec
44 48 55 N
66 57 04 W
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Accessibility: There is parking available in West
Quoddy State Park, and it is a short walk to the lighthouse.
There is a visitors center/museum in the keeper's housem maintained
by the West Quoddy Head
Light Keepers Association. The Visitors Center is open daily
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Memorial Day weekend through mid-October.
Call (207) 733-2180 for more information. The lighthouse tower
is not open to the public.
Click here to see sunrise
at West Quoddy Head
Station established: 1808; Present lighthouse built:
1857; Automated: 1988
Construction material: Brick; Height of tower: 49
feet; Height of focal plane: 83 feet
Optic: Third-order Fresnel (1858), still in use.
Characteristic: Two white flashes every 15 seconds
Click here to see West Quoddy
Head Light's flash
Fog signal: Two blasts every 30 seconds
Other buildings still standing: 1858 keeper's house,
1887 fog signal building, 1892 oil house
Active U.S. Coast Guard aid to navigation; property
maintained by Maine Department of Parks and Land.
For more information:
- West Quoddy
Head Light Keepers Association
PO Box 378, Lubec, ME 04652
(207) 733-2180
- Email: info@westquoddy.com
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