Every standing lighthouse in the United States

This directory publishes 765 lighthouses.

What counts: A light is counted here when a federal record documents a standing lighthouse structure: it appears as a named tower, dwelling, caisson, or station-building aid in the current U.S. Coast Guard aids-to-navigation file (the machine-readable Light List); or it is a light-station property listed on the National Register of Historic Places; or a U.S. Coast Guard Historian’s Office fact sheet documents it as standing. Numbered channel and harbor aids, buoys, daybeacons, and lights documented as destroyed are not counted.

Each page gives the light's structure and history from federal records, and an access tier — open to visit, grounds only, view only, no public access, or no access information published — stamped with its source and the date it was checked (2026-11-12).

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Start with the lights you can actually visit

9 lights have owner-published access information so far — see the visiting page for the verified list. The rest are published with an honest "no access information published" stamp rather than a guess.