Tourists travel to Maine to see the lighthouses along the coast. Many have been preserved in working condition - some you can even stay in.
With its dramatic coastal setting at the tip of the Pemaquid Neck, this lighthouse has a beacon that can be seen 14 nautical miles out to sea. Each year about 100,000 visitors come to marvel at this landmark and explore the park grounds, looking out to the Atlantic. In 2003, the people of Maine voted to use the lighthouse's likeness on the state quarter coin.
Cast-iron Goose Rocks Light in Penobscot Bay stands at the eastern entrance to the busy 1.6km-wide passage of the Fox Islands Thoroughfare. Visitors who want an extended lighthouse stay can sleep here, in return for making a donation, in the Goose Rocks "keepers' quarters" (two bedrooms and a bunkroom can sleep six). Getting there involves a ferry ride, a motorboat ride and then climbing up an iron rung ladder.
