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Managing Organization:
Bureau of Land Management/Friends of Cape Blanco
Telephone: 541-332-0248
Website: http://www.or.blm.gov/coosbay/recreation/blanco.htm
Notes:
This is Oregon's oldest lighthouse tower. The Friends of Cape Blanco work for the preservation of this lighthouse, which is leased by the Coast Guard to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. A $220,000 restoration was completed in 2003. To reach the Friends of Cape Blanco, write to: PO Box 285, Sixes, OR 97476.
Tower Height: 59
Height of Focal Plane: 245
Characteristic and Range: White flash every 20 seconds.
Description of Tower: White. conical brick tower.
This light is operational
Other Buildings?
Duplex house, garage, communications building, visitor center.
Date Established: 1870
Date Present Tower Built: 1870
Date Automated: 1980
Optics: 1870: First order Fresnel lens; 1936: Second order Fresnel lens (still in use).
Current Use: Active aid to navigation.
Open To Public? Yes.
Directions:
Cape Blanco is about five miles northwest of Port Orford and 60 miles north of the Oregon/California border. Guided tours of the tower and lantern room are available every day (except Mondays, other than Memorial Day, Fourth of July, and Labor Day) from April through October from 10 a.m. until 3:30 p.m.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Keepers: H.B. Burnap (1870-?); S. P. Pierce (c. 1875), James Langlois (c. 1870s-?, served for 42 years), Frederick Amundsen (c. 1905), William Denning, Mabel E. Bretherton (Second Assistant Keeper, 1903-c. 1906), James Hughes (?, served for 38 years)
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