Pigeon Point Light Station State Historic Park
SF Bay Area
parks
At a glance
- Size
- 76
- Established
- 1981
parks detail
- Hook
- One of the tallest lighthouses in America (1871), with a hostel in the keepers' quarters
- More
- Its first-order Fresnel lens — 1,008 prisms — is displayed in the fog signal building while the 1871 tower awaits restoration. Book the hostel's cliff-top hot tub at sunset, and watch for gray whales close inshore in spring.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 37.182, -122.394