The Lighthouse Challenge of NJ is a rain-or-shine, two-day opportunity to visit land-based lighthouses. museums and life-saving stations!
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New Jersey's tallest lighthouse awaits you at Pacific and Rhode Island Avenues in Atlantic City (walking distance from the Atlantic City History Museum/Garden Pier).
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31 South Rhode Island Avenue
Atlantic City, New Jersey 08401 - Phone
- 609-449-1360
- Website
- http://www.abseconlighthouse.org
- More on GoNJ
- www.getoutsidenj.com/places/absecon-lighthouse-new-jersey/
The Barnegat Lighthouse contains picnic areas, trails along the inlet and to the beach, and of course the lighthouse itself. During the warmer months of the year, you are able to climb the lighthouse for a great view.
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Barnegat Light, New Jersey 08006
Ocean County - Phone
- (609) 494-2016
- Website
- http://www.state.nj.us/dep/parksandforests/parks/barnlig.html
- More on GoNJ
- www.getoutsidenj.com/places/barnegat-light-house-new-jersey/
Located on the southern tip of New Jersey, Cape May Point State Park is a key site on the NJ Coastal Heritage Trail, with an environmental center that houses a classroom for interpretive programs and a museum about the park.
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P O Box 107
Cape May Point, NJ 08212 - Phone
- (609) 884-2159
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- http://www.state.nj.us/dep/parksandforests/parks/capemay.html
- More on GoNJ
- www.getoutsidenj.com/places/cape-may-point-state-park-new-jersey/
East Point Lighthouse is an active navigational aid built in 1849, situated on the picturesque Southern Bayshore in Cumberland County, New Jersey. The lighthouse has been fully restored, furnished and is a year-round museum open to the public.
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Lighthouse Road
Heislerville, New Jersey 08324 - Website
- http://eastpointlight.com/
- More on GoNJ
- www.getoutsidenj.com/places/east-point-lighthouse-new-jersey/
c. 1876 wrought iron lighthouse is listed on the National Registry of Historic Places. Originally constructed in Buffalo, New York and then moved here by train and mule-wagon to New Jersey.
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199 Lighthouse Road
Pennsville, New Jersey 08070 - Phone
- 609-463-0994
- Website
- http://www.friendsofsupawnarefuge.org/lighthouse-history.html
- More on GoNJ
- www.getoutsidenj.com/places/finns-point-rear-range-light-new-jersey/
The Sandy Hook Light is the oldest standing lighthouse and the oldest operating lighthouse in the United States. It is the only surviving tower of the 11 lighthouses built in the thirteen colonies during the colonial period from 1716 to 1771.
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85 Mercer Road,
Highlands, New Jersey 07732 - Phone
- 732-872-5970
- Website
- https://www.nps.gov/gate/planyourvisit/sandy-hook-hours.htm
- More on GoNJ
- www.getoutsidenj.com/places/sandy-hook-lighthouse-new-jersey/
Sea Girt Lighthouse, at Ocean Avenue and Beacon Boulevard in Sea Girt, New Jersey, flashed its first light December 10, 1896. The beacon, which could be seen 15 miles at sea, guided countless mariners in their journeys.
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9 Ocean Avenue,
Sea Girt, New Jersey 08750 - Phone
- 732-974-0514
- Website
- http://www.seagirtlighthouse.com/
- More on GoNJ
- www.getoutsidenj.com/places/sea-girt-lighthouse-new-jersey/
Visit the Stone Harbor Life Saving Station, built in 1895, it was recently placed on the national Register of Historic Places. Throughout the facility there are murals and displays outlining this stations heritage to our current Coast Guard. The sur
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117th Street & 2nd Avenue
Stone Harbor, New Jersey - Phone
- (609) 368-2294
- Website
- http://www.stephencludlampost331.org/
- More on GoNJ
- www.getoutsidenj.com/places/tatham-life-saving-station-and-museum-stone-harbor/
The Tinicum Island Rear Range Light is a lighthouse located in the Billingsport section of Paulsboro, Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States, the rear of a pair of range lights marking a section of the channel in the Delaware River.
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2nd Street,
Paulsboro, New Jersey 08066 - Phone
- 856-423-1554
- Website
- http://www.tinicumrearrangelighthouse.org/
- More on GoNJ
- www.getoutsidenj.com/places/tinicum-rear-range-new-jersey/
Tuckers Island Lighthouse is a reproduction of the lighthouse which was built in 1868 on Tuckers Island. When you enter, look for photos of the lighthouse as it fell into the ocean in October of 1927.
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120 West Main Street
Tuckerton, New Jersey 08087 - Phone
- 609- 296-8868
- Website
- https://tuckertonseaport.org/about-us/exibits/#1536608098043-a4a5487c-b4bb
- More on GoNJ
- www.getoutsidenj.com/places/tuckers-island-lighthouse-new-jersey/
Twin Lights is situated 200 feet above sea level in Highlands, New Jersey, and overlooks the Shrewsbury River, Sandy Hook, Raritan Bay, New York skyline and the Atlantic Ocean.
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Lighthouse Road
Highlands, New Jersey 07732 - Phone
- 732-872-1814
- Website
- http://www.twinlightslighthouse.com
- More on GoNJ
- www.getoutsidenj.com/places/twin-lights-historic-site/
