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Lights Out For Heceta Head Lighthouse


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January 18, 2012, 8:58 am


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A one-million dollar restoration project to renovate the Heceta Head Lighthouse light is expected to start in February. The beacon light was turned off January 10 on the crumbling 1894 lighthouse in preparation of the project. The light will remain off for the duration of the work, which could take up to two years to complete.

Although the lighthouse tower will remain closed for restoration work, the parking lots and trail are open now that the first phase in the major renovation at the site has been completed. Phase one involved reshaping and repaving the west parking lot to improve drainage and repair erosion damage, a chronic problem at the site.

The historic assistant lighthouse keeper’s house, which the USFS operates through a concessionaire as a bed and breakfast operation, remains open through the renovations. The park welcomes more than 800,000 visitors each year.

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