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Managing Organization:
College of the Atlantic
Telephone: 207-288-5015
Website: http://www.coa.edu
Contact Address Information:
105 Eden Street
Bar Harbor
Maine, 04609, United States
Notes:
The light station has been used as a whale watching station by the College of the Atlantic since the late 1970s. The lighthouse was transferred to the college under the Maine Lights Program in 1998.
Tower Height: 58
Height of Focal Plane: 75
Characteristic and Range: Flashing white every 15 seconds, visible for 18 nautical miles.
Description of Tower: Conical granite tower with black cast iron lantern.
This light is operational
Other Buildings?
1892 1.5 story wood frame Colonial duplex keeper's house, cistern, storage building, 1895 boathouse.
Earlier Towers?
1830: wooden tower attached to keeper's dwelling.
Date Established: 1830
Date Present Tower Built: 1847
Date Automated: 1977
Optics: 1858: Third order Fresnel lens; c. 1975: rotating aerobeacons; 1985: DCB-24; 1993: Vega VRB-25 solar powered optic.
Fog Signal: 1858: Fog bell and striking machinery in bell tower, later fog whistle; now automated fog horn with two blasts every 30 seconds, operating continuously.
Current Use: Active aid to navigation, research station.
Open To Public? No.
Directions:
Occasionally whale watches from Bar Harbor pass the lighthouse, but the cruises go where the whales are, so there's no guarantee of lighthouse sightings. Call the Bar Harbor Whale Watch Co. at (207) 288-2386 or Whale Watcher Inc. at (207) 288-3322 for information. Scenic flights are available from the Bar Harbor Airport; you mat be able to get an aerial view of Mount Desert Rock Light. Call Acadia Air, Inc., at (207) 667-5534 for information.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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