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By Lori Payne
Correspondent
ALPENA — People who enjoy romance, history, ghost stories and shipwrecks are drawn to lighthouses. Why? Because lighthouses can give you all that and more.
The Great Lakes Lighthouse Festival in Alpena is the place for those who love the sentinels of the lake.
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The "Li'l Red" Alpena Lighthouse is visible from the marina breakwater at the mouth of the Thunder Bay River.
ALPENA — If you love lighthouses, make plans to visit the Great Lakes Lighhouse Festival this weekend.
Michigan is home to more than 100 lighthouses and Alpena is located within an hour’s drive of several of them. For the really adventures, there are even boat or aerial trips to see Alpena’s two lights located on off-shore islands.
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1) Tawas Point Lighthouse – 1.989.362.5041
Off U.S. 23 on Tawas Beach Road, Tawas City, MI
2) Sturgeon Point Lighthouse and Museum 1.989.724.6297
Off U.S. 23 North of Harrisville on Sturgeon Point Road.
3) Alpena Light (Lil’ Red) – Viewing from Thunder Bay Marina, Located at
the Mouth of the Thunder Bay River, Alpena, MI.
4) Old Presque Isle Lighthouse – 1.989.595.6979
New Presque Isle Lighthouse – 1.989.595.9917
both lighthouses located off U.S. 23 on Grand Lake Road
5) 40 Mile Point Lighthouse – 1.989.734.45.87
6 Miles North of Rogers City, South of Manitou Beach Road
A view out one of the portholes on the way up the top of Big Sable Lighthouse. Photos by Bryan Laviolette
This is the second installment in a series of stories about West Michigan tourist destinations.
LUDINGTON — For more than a century, shipping captains counted on lighthouses and their keepers to keep the light shining, warning them of dangerous shallow spots throughout the Great Lakes.
All of Michigan’s lights have been automated for decades, but most of them continue to serve, only with a completely different purpose.
Today, while many of the lights continue to serve as beacons, all of them offer a window into the past, teaching visitors how folks lived in the “old days.”
While visiting Ludington State Park this week, we toured Big Sable Lighthouse, a 1967 structure lovingly restored by the Sable Points Lighthouse Keepers Association, which also maintains the Little Sable Point Lighthouse at Silver Lake and the Ludington North Breakwater light at the mouth of the Pere Marquette River.
