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BOOK YOUR GETAWAY TODAY AT W M T A . O R G www.visitchicagonorthshore.com W M T A . O R G @chicagonorthshore 5. Holland Harbor 72. Lighthouse Lighthouse Year Built: 1872 Tower Height: 32' Year Built: 1869 Tower Height: 89' Tours: No Stay at the light? No Tours: Yes Stay at the light? No GPS Coordinates: 42°46'21.7"N GPS Coordinates: 45°05'17.234"N 86°12'44.7"W 87°02'51.515"W Website: BigRedLighthouse.com Website: DCMM.org Did You Know? The first lighthouse Did You Know? Explore Door County’s keeper was Melgert van Regenmorter, most iconic lighthouse, which in 2019 appointed to service in 1870 at an celebrated 150 years of standing watch annual salary of $540. He served until on the shore of Lake Michigan. Ride a just prior to the steam fog signal going hay-wagon over the causeway to explore the island, including the 89-foot-tall light into operation. It is said that he wanted tower, oil storage house, and lighthouse no part of the new technology. WMTA.org LakeLighthouse Map Michigan & Circle Tour Daniel Anderson Photography keeper’s home. Whitefish Point 48 8. White River 25 73. Old Light Station Baileys Harbor Year Built: 1875 Tower Height: 38' Lighthouse Tours: Yes Stay at the light? No Year Built: 1853 Tower Height: 52' GPS Coordinates: 43°22'29.3"N Sault Ste. Marie Tours: No Stay at the light? No 86°25'27.5"W GPS Coordinates: 45°3'21.1"N Website: SPLKA.org 47 87°5'49.3"W Did You Know? Captain William Munising Did You Know? Construction of Baileys Robinson was the very first keeper from Harbor Lighthouse began in 1852. 1875-1919, and he passed away the day With lake levels being extremely low before he was scheduled to depart and that year, the work crew was able to retire. The lighthouse is now a maritime transport the building materials directly museum with many local artifacts and to the island using horse-drawn wagons. ToddandBradReed.com interesting exhibits. Ken & Barb Wardius Information courtesy LighthouseFriends.com

9. Little Sable Hessell 77. Kewaunee Point Lighthouse 43 Pierhead Lighthouse Manistique 50 Year Built: 1874 Tower Height: 115' Rapid River 49 Year Built: 1912 Tower Height: 43' St. Ignace Tours: No Stay at the light? No Tours: Yes Stay at the light? No Squaw 33 46 GPS Coordinates: 44°27'26.67"N GPS Coordinates: 43°39'05.0"N 29 Island 32 45 87°29'34.4"W 86°32'22.6"W 28 24 36 31 Bois Blanc 44 Website: Kewaunee.org Website: SPLKA.org 55 34 35 42 Escanaba 22 23 Island Did You Know? This was originally built Did You Know? Little Sable Point 56 25 30 Lighthouse still has its original third 53 Mackinaw 37 40 as a fog signal building at a time when 57 41 there were two light towers housing order , making it one of the 54 City 38 few lighthouses on Lake Michigan to be Beaver Cross 39 range lights on the pier. In 1931 a able to showcase its original lens. It is Island Village lantern room was installed on top of the the tallest light on the eastern shores of 24 Cheboygan building and the front tower was moved Lake Michigan. 51 to the entrance of the Chicago River. ToddandBradReed.com 52 19 27 58 Washington 68 69 Island Ellison 20 26 Petoskey 12. Big Sable Bay 70 23 80. Manitowoc Point Lighthouse 71 Charlevoix Breakwater Ephraim 20 21 Year Built: 1867 Tower Height: 112' Fish Creek Lighthouse Tours: Yes Stay at the light? Yes Menominee 60 72 Year Built: 1918 Tower Height: 50' GPS Coordinates: 44°03'27.5"N 67 N. Manitou 21 86°30'52.1"W Island 19 Tours: No Stay at the light? No 59 73 Website: SPLKA.org GPS Coordinates: 44°5'33.94"N 61 Egg 74 87°38'37.49"W Did You Know? The Big Sable Tower Harbor S. Manitou 18 Leland was built of Milwaukee cream brick, 62 Bailey’s Harbor Island 18 Did You Know? In 2002 the fifth-order which was so soft that the tower began Fresnel lens was removed and placed deteriorating from the sand which Sturgeon Glen 22 on display at the nearby blew against it. In 1900 the tower was Bay 66 Arbor Maritime Museum. Learn more about encased in steel plates and painted its the museum at WisconsinMaritime.org. trademark black and white. ToddandBradReed.com 17 Empire 75 15 Acme 16 Traverse City Honor 16 17 83. Port 22. Mission Point 15 Lighthouse Glossary Lighthouse Frankfort Beacon: Any fixed lighted Washington North 63 76 or unlighted . Year Built: 1870 Tower Height: 36' N Pierhead Light 64 Tours: Yes Stay at the light? Yes 65 Breakwater: An offshore structure Year Built: 1935 Tower Height: 58' GPS Coordinates: 44°59'28.7"N used to protect a harbor or beach Tours: No Stay at the light? No 85°28'46.2"W Green Bay 77 Bear Lake 13 14 from the force of the waves. GPS Coordinates: 43°23'07.1"N Website: MissionPointLighthouse.com Kewaunee 87°51'34.9"W 14 : A narrow elevated walkway, Did You Know? Every winter the park is A Catwalk Website: VisitPortWashington.com visited by a snowy owl. Visit the Mission allowing the keeper access to light Did You Know? The Port Washington Point Lighthouse website to find more towers built out in the water. details about their popular Lighthouse 13 Cadillac North Pierhead Light is one of only two Manistee art deco lighthouses of this design; the Keeper program, and to fill out your Daymark: Unique color, pattern, application (ages 18 & up only). Two other is on Lake Erie. Rivers 78 G 12 or architecture of towers and other 79 markers used by navigators to mark Manitowoc their location during the day. 26 80 I 12 11 Gallery: Outdoor railed walkway 23. Charlevoix South 11 Ludington encircling the watch room where 7 8 9 10 84. Kevich Light Pier Lighthouse the keeper sat and monitored the Year Built: 1981 Tower Height: 50' Year Built: 1948 Tower Height: 41' lantern and weather conditions. Tours: No Stay at the light? No 10 Reed City Tours: No Stay at the light? No H GPS Coordinates: 43°19'24.6"N Pier: A structure extending into 87°53'18.4"W GPS Coordinates: 45°19'12.8"N navigable water for use as a landing 85°15'53.7"W Sheboygan 81 Did You Know? In 1981, Brana Kevich Silver Lake/Mears place, or to protect or form a harbor. and his wife Neva built a lighthouse Website: VisitCharlevoix.com 9 Hart 6 Big Rapids home on a bluff overlooking Lake Did You Know? The lighthouse is Range Lights: Used by mariners to fix Michigan to fulfill a personal quest to owned by the City of Charlevoix and C own and live in a lighthouse. Kevich maintained and preserved by the their position in open water and guide Lighthouse stands just 50' tall, but Charlevoix Historical Society, while them into port. Range lights usually has a focal plane of 163', giving it the the United States Coast Guard is I appear in pairs and are 1000 feet apart. distinction of having the highest focal responsible for the operation of the plane of any active lighthouse on the Port 5 light itself. : A shallow area, such as a . Washington Shoal Ken & Barb Wardius 82 Information courtesy LighthouseFriends.com 27 8 Whitehall sandbar or rock formation. 83 Tower: A raised skeletal or walled structure 84 4 with a light signal device at the top.

M 87. Wind Point 34. Waugoshance Lighthouse Glossary reprinted with permission from 7 Muskegon Shoal Light the Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association Lighthouse Year Built: 1851 Tower Height: 63' Year Built: 1880 Tower Height: 108' Tours: No Stay at the light? No Tours: By Appointment GPS Coordinates: 45°47'10.2"N Milwaukee 85 6 Grand Stay at the light? No 85°5'27.6"W Haven Grand GPS Coordinates: 42°46'52.87"N Did You Know? In 1943, in the midst 86 VacationersCircle have been looping Tour the lake for 87°45'30.36"W of World War II, the navy took control Rapids Website: WindPointLighthouse.org of several islands in northern Lake generations, but the official Lake Michigan Did You Know? The Fog Horn Building, Michigan for training naval task Circle Tour route was not established until forces. The lighthouse became part 1987, when the Michigan Department of located on the lighthouse grounds, of a bombing and gunnery range for shows the original design with the large Transportation teamed up with the West horns aimed towards the lake. The fog Naval Air Station Traverse City, and was 87 E 3 bombed and strafed by pilots. 5 Michigan Tourist Association to create the signals can be heard as far as 10 miles Racine out into Lake Michigan. ToddandBradReed.com Information courtesy LighthouseFriends.com 88 Holland route and, the following year, the official guidebook.

89 4 Saugatuck/Douglas K Working in conjunction with the Michigan Kenosha 90 2 35. McGulpin 28 Fennville Department of Transportation, the West 89. Southport Michigan Tourist Association helped to make Point Lighthouse the first of the official Great Lakes Circle Lighthouse Year Built: 1869 Tower Height: 38' Tours a reality, and the first publication was Year Built: 1866 Tower Height: 55'

Tours: Yes, Seasonally Tours: Yes Stay at the light? Yes A 3 South Haven released in 1988 as a 52-page guide book. GPS Coordinates: 45°47'13.704"N Waukegan 1 The guide book was transformed into a map GPS Coordinates: 42°35'21.8"N 91 87°48'57.2"W 84°46'22.871"W Kalamazoo in 2007, and the driving route can now be Website: KenoshaHistoryCenter.org Website: McGulpinPoint.org found online at WMTA.org/Lake-Michigan-

Did You Know? The walls at the Did You Know? Near the shore below L Paw Paw Lighthouse-Map-Circle-Tour. the lighthouse sits McGulpin Rock, 5x bottom of the tower are 4 ½ feet thick the size of Plymouth Rock. Generations The official Lake Michigan Circle Tour route is Milwaukee Cream City brick; they taper of Native Americans had used the rock Highland Park off to 2 ½ feet thick at the top, with to aid in navigation through the Straits 2 St. Joseph designated by green “Circle Tour” signs placed the tower's interior staying the same of Mackinac. It was “discovered” by 29 at 10 mile intervals. Whenever you spot a diameter the whole way. There are 72 French explorers around 1615. Evanston 92 brown “Harbor Tour” sign along the route, it’s steps to reach the top of the lighthouse. Stevensville your signal to take a side trip to explore one Skokie 93 Three Rivers of the dozens of port communities along the 94 Lake Michigan shore. 41. Poe Reef Chicago 95 90. North Pier Lighthouse 96 1 Niles Lighthouse Year Built: 1929 Tower Height: 53' 97 105 Year Built: 1906 Tower Height: 50' Tours: No Stay at the light? No 98 104 Tours: No Stay at the light? No GPS Coordinates: 45°41'41.2"N 99 Michigan City 30 South Bend GPS Coordinates: 42°35'21.3"N 84°21'43.6"W 100 Portage 87°48'30.8"W 101 Did You Know? The first navigational 102 103 Did You Know? The North Pier aid here was a lightship placed in 1892. Gary Lighthouse is a functioning lighthouse, A permanent lighthouse was requested but is privately owned and serves as an in 1913, as it would be less costly to artist workshop known as the Kenosha maintain and could remain all year. You Lighthouse Studio. The lighthouse is can view Poe Reef from Lighthouse sometimes referred to as the Pierhead Point near the ruins of Cheboygan Main Key 2021 Lighthouse Map Sponsor: Lighthouse or the Red Lighthouse Light Station in Cheboygan . BlarneyCastleOil.com Indicates Dining, Lodging, Attraction, Transportation, because of its iconic location and color. Denise Richards # Information courtesy LighthouseFriends.com Visitor Information (see other side) On the Cover: Indicates Lighthouse Point Betsie Lighthouse 16 in Frankfort is a beautiful # place to catch the sunset on Lake Michigan. Circle Tour Route 48. Whitefish Photo courtesy of Michael Mullin. 97. 4 Mile Point Lighthouse Crib Light Year Built: 1861 Tower Height: 76' Year Built: 1891 Tower Height: 30' 37. Cheboygan River Front Range Light Station, Cheboygan 75. Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal North Pierhead Light, Tours: Yes Stay at the light? Yes Tours: No Stay at the light? No Michigan: 38. Cheboygan Crib Light, Cheboygan Sturgeon Bay GPS Coordinates: 46°46'16.0"N 39. Old Cheboygan Lighthouse, Cheboygan (Ruins) 76. Algoma Pierhead Lighthouse, Algoma GPS Coordinates: 41°52'22"N 84°57'27.4"W Lower Peninsula Lights 87°32'45"W 1. New Buffalo Lighthouse, New Buffalo 40. Fourteen Foot Shoal Lighthouse, Cheboygan 77. Kewaunee Pierhead Lighthouse, Kewaunee Website: ShipwreckMuseum.com 41. Poe Reef Lighthouse, Cheboygan 78. Rawley Point Lighthouse, Two Rivers Did You Know? This water-intake crib 2. St. Joseph North Pier Lighthouse, St. Joseph and connecting tunnel provided 75 Did You Know? is the 3. South Haven South Pierhead Light, South Haven 42. Spectacle Reef Lighthouse, Rogers City 79. North Pier Lighthouse, Two Rivers million gallons to the daily water supply oldest operating lighthouse on Lake 4. Kalamazoo River Light, Saugatuck 43. Martin Reef Light Station, Cedarville 80. Manitowoc Breakwater Lighthouse, Manitowoc of Chicago when it began operating in Superior. 5. Holland Harbor Lighthouse, Holland 44. Bois Blanc Island Lighthouse, Bois Blanc Island 81. Sheboygan Breakwater Lighthouse, Sheboygan 1867. It was equipped with a state-of- the-art steam heating plant to keep the 6. Grand Haven Lighthouse, Grand Haven 45. Round Island Light, Round Island 82. 1860 Light Station, Port Washington 46. Round Island Passage Light, Round Island Channel 83. Pierhead Light, Port Washington crib’s well room at a constant 70 degrees 7. Muskegon South Pierhead Light, Muskegon even in the middle of winter. 8. White River Light Station, Whitehall 84. Kevich Light, Grafton 85. North Point Lighthouse, Milwaukee Jon & Anita Clay 9. Little Sable Point Lighthouse, Silver Lake/Mears Information courtesy LighthouseFriends.com 10. Pentwater Pierhead Lights, Pentwater Michigan: 86. Milwaukee Pierhead Light, Milwaukee 11. Ludington North Breakwater Light, Ludington 87. Wind Point Lighthouse, Wind Point 12. Big Sable Point Lighthouse, Upper Peninsula Lights 88. Racine North Breakwater Lighthouse, Racine 47. Point Iroquois Lighthouse, Brimley 13. Manistee North Pierhead Lighthouse, Manistee 89. Southport Light Station, Kenosha 48. Station, Paradise 53. Peninsula 14. Portage Lake North Pierhead, Onekama 90. Kenosha Pierhead Light, Kenosha 103. Gary 49. Seul Choix Point Lighthouse, Gulliver 15. Frankfort North Breakwater Light, Frankfort Point Lighthouse 50. Manistique East Breakwater Lighthouse, Manistique Breakwater 16. Point Betsie Lighthouse, Frankfort Year Built: 1865 Tower Height: 40' 51. Lighthouse, Poverty Island 17. Robert H. Manning Memorial Light, Empire Illinois Lights Lighthouse Tours: No Stay at the light? No 52. St. Martin Island Lighthouse, Garden 18. Lighthouse, 91. Waukegan Harbor Light, Waukegan Year Built: 1911 Tower Height: 30' 53. Peninsula Point Lighthouse, Rapid River GPS Coordinates: 45°40'5.2"N Glen Arbor Township 92. Grosse Point Lighthouse, Evanston Tours: No Stay at the light? No 86°58'1.3"W 54. Eleven Foot Shoal, Escanaba 19. North Manitou Shoal Light Station, 93. Wilson Avenue Crib Lighthouse, Chicago GPS Coordinates: 41°37'49.4"N 55. Minneapolis Shoal Light, Escanaba Did You Know? Shaped like a funnel, Leland Township 94. William E. Dever Crib Light, Chicago 87°19'13.3"W 56. Sand Point Lighthouse, Escanaba the peninsula naturally collects 20. South Fox Island Lighthouse, Northport 95. Chicago Harbor Lighthouse, Chicago monarch butterflies at its tip each fall 57. Escanaba Crib Light, Escanaba Did You Know? The lighthouse was 21. Grand Traverse Lighthouse, Northport 96. Chicago Harbor Southeast Guide Wall, Chicago removed for a period in 2017 so it before they continue south across Lake 58. Cedar River Lighthouse, Escanaba 97. 4 Mile Crib Light, Chicago Michigan on their annual migration. 22. Mission Point Lighthouse, Traverse City could be sandblasted, repaired, and 59. Menominee North Pier Light, Menominee 98. 68th Street Crib Lighthouse, Chicago Visitors can climb the tower for views 23. Charlevoix South Pier Lighthouse, Charlevoix repainted. As the area surrounding of the surrounding waters and spotting 24. Beaver Island Head Light, Beaver Island the pier is industrial and private, Gary migrating birds and butterflies. 25. Paradise Bay Harbor Light, Beaver Island Harbor Breakwater Lighthouse is best seen from the water. Kenneth Clay 26. Petoskey Lighthouse, Petoskey Jon & Anita Clay Information courtesy LighthouseFriends.com Wisconsin Lights Indiana Lights Information courtesy LighthouseFriends.com 27. Little Traverse Lighthouse, Harbor Springs 60. Lighthouse, Fish Creek 99. Calumet Harbor Lighthouse, South Chicago 28. Lighthouse, Squaw Island 61. Lighthouse, Peshtigo (Ruins) 100. Indiana Harbor East Breakwater Lighthouse, 29. Lansing Shoal Light, Newton Township 62. Peshtigo Reef Lighthouse, Peshtigo East Chicago 30. Skillagalee Lighthouse, 63. Long Tail Point Lighthouse, Suamico (Ruins) 101. Old Indiana Harbor Light, East Chicago 60. Chambers 64. Grassy Island Range Lights, Green Bay 102. Buffington Harbor Breakwater Lighthouse, 104. Michigan City 65. Green Bay Harbor Entrance Lighthouse, Scott East Chicago East Pierhead Light Island Lighthouse 66. Sherwood Point Lighthouse, Sturgeon Bay 103. Gary Breakwater Lighthouse, Gary Michigan: Year Built: 1904 Tower Height: 49' Year Built: 1868 Tower Height: 44'9" 67. Eagle Bluff Lighthouse, Fish Creek 104. Michigan City East Pierhead Lighthouse, Tours: No Stay at the light? No Straits of Mackinac Area 68. Boyers Bluff Lighthouse, Washington Michigan City Tours: No Stay at the light? No GPS Coordinates: 45°12'7.9"N 31. Gray’s Reef Lighthouse, Mackinaw City 69. Pottawatomie Lighthouse, Rock Island 105. Old Michigan City Lighthouse, Michigan City GPS Coordinates: 41°43'44.4"N 87°21'53.3"W 32. White Shoal Lighthouse, Mackinaw City 70. Rear Range Lighthouse, Washington 86°54'42.0"W Did You Know? With the nearby 33. St. Helena Island Lighthouse, Mackinaw City 71. Lighthouse, Ellison Bay Website: eMichiganCity.com 72. Cana Island Lighthouse, Baileys Harbor channel referred to as "Strawberry 34. Waugoshance Shoal Light, Mackinaw City Did You Know? The original fifth Passage," the area around Chambers 35. McGulpin Point Lighthouse, Mackinaw City 73. Baileys Harbor Lighthouse, Baileys Harbor order Fresnel lens has been replaced Island was known for its strawberries. 36. Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse, Mackinaw City 74. Baileys Harbor Range Lights, with a modern plastic optic; however The first here Baileys Harbor WMTA.org the original is available for viewing at cultivated a large strawberry patch, the museum in the Old Michigan City occasionally treating visitors to pie or Lighthouse. strawberries and cream. Paul Kemiel Photography Ken & Barb Wardius Information courtesy LighthouseFriends.com