Split Rock Lighthouse on the North Shore is one step closer to being restored after crews completed the first phase of an ...

For some travelers, the lure of a lighthouse is irresistible. Just ask Kraig Anderson, who took a trip to see one in North Carolina more than a decade ago, and has since visited every beacon in ...

Split Rock Lighthouse was spun from a dark day. “Split Rock was born out of a – really, actually a horrific storm in 1905,” Keeper Hayes Scriven said. “It was a really bad November gale ...

Construction at Split Rock Lighthouse in Two Harbors will start May 5, the Minnesota Historical Society said, at which point the lighthouse itself and other historic buildings will be closed to ...

Split Rock Lighthouse is a special place to stargaze, and people are invited onto the grounds after hours to experience it for themselves. “I get the luxury of seeing that all the time,” Split ...

LAKE COUNTY, Minn. — It’s a sunny August Saturday at Split Rock Lighthouse historical site in northern Minnesota on the shore of Lake Superior. There’s a line out the lighthouse door of ...

DULUTH, Minn. — The 110-year-old Split Rock Lighthouse on Lake Superior’s North Shore is usually only lit once a year to mark the anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald in November.

A new public camping facility in Minnesota is not an everyday occurrence — which is why I treated snagging an opening-day spot at the new Shipwreck Creek Campground at Split Rock Lighthouse ...

A delegation led by the steamship company president descended upon Washington, D.C. In early 1907, Congress appropriated $75,000 for a lighthouse and fog signal in the vicinity of Split Rock.

As Split Rock Lighthouse's first head keeper from 1910 to 1928, Orren "Pete" Young cautioned countless sailors from his cliff-top perch overlooking Lake Superior, 50 miles up the shore from Duluth.

An iconic site on the Lake Superior shoreline will be briefly closed to tourists this spring for repair and restoration. Construction at Split Rock Lighthouse in Two Harbors will start May 5, the ...