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There is an emergency light on the fog signal building which sure needs a coat of paint and more.

The Point Reyes Lighthouse is in the Gulf of the Farallones on Point Reyes in Point Reyes National Seashore, located in Marin County.

There are 308 steps down to the lighthouse itself, remember once there you have to walk back up.

A lighthouse was assigned to Point Reyes in 1855, but construction was delayed for fifteen years because of a dispute over a fair price for the land. The lighthouse is a sixteen sided, 11 m (37 ft) tower, and a twin of Cape Mendocino Lighthouse. The first-order Fresnel lens was first lit on December 1, 1870. Electricity came to the lighthouse in 1938, and concrete steps were built into the cliff in 1939. The station was automated in 1975.

The lighthouse was used as a location for the 1980 John Carpenter film The Fog. It is also the subject of a poem by Weldon Kees, "The Exposed Reef." Kees, together with filmmaker and photographer William Heick, later made a documentary film about the lighthouse and its environs in 1954-55.
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Camera location37° 59′ 48.13″ N, 123° 01′ 21.92″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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