Two roll-a-way beds also available for a maximum of eight overnight guests. Email: Park District offers two historic Keeper's Quarters as vacation rentals, retreats and wedding venues. Location: On Vashon-Maury Island across Puget Sound from Seattle and TacomaĬontact: 20 or write to Vashon Park District, P.O. One bedroom with a queen size bed, one full bathroom with a shower and a fully furnished kitchen. This one bedroom cottage on the light station property was built by the first lighthouse keeper John Maggs and his wife Caroline. Residence 2: Historic Keeper John Maggs House Two bedrooms (1 queen, 2 twin beds), sofa sleeper, one bath and a fully furnished kitchen. On Puget Sound at the tip of the Kitsap Peninsula near Hansville.Ĭontact: 41. Location: 9005 Point No Point Road NE, Hansville, WA 98340. Point No Point Lighthouse - USLHS National Headquarters The houses can accommodate a maximum of six people. Bathroom in each house is off the kitchen. Three former lightkeeper's houses, each with 3 bedrooms upstairs(two 2 miles north of the Columbia River, 3 miles southwest of Ilwaco.įacility: Located at Cape Disappointment State Park. Some old lighthouses now offer what are called keeper programs, where you pay a small fee and then get to live and work at a lighthouse for one to two weeks.Location: 244 Robert Gray Dr., Ilwaco, WA 98624. If you find yourself caught up imagining the adventures of those long-ago lighthouse keepers, there's an amazing opportunity for you. $975–$1,580 per week depending on season, $225 per night in the off-season (two-night minimum stay) 20 The larger Vashon Island is just a short drive across a manmade isthmus from Point Robinson. Outside, water birds abound around the lighthouse, and the busy shipping lanes are filled with colorful watercraft of all shapes and sizes. "We have appliances in there that go back to the era. "They are the way that they were when the keepers from the lighthouse service were living there," he says.
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The two bungalows have full kitchens, sitting parlors and porches, all with stunning views of the sound.Ĭaptain Joe Wubbold, president of the nonprofit Keepers of Point Robinson organization, says the quarters aren't luxurious, but rather homey and comfortable.
It shares a sandy beach with two renovated keeper's quarters rental homes, perfect for families and small groups to get away and unwind. Maury Island in Washington's Puget Sound is the setting for the 38-foot Point Robinson Lighthouse built in 1915. 36 parks.wa.gov/vacationhouses/capedisappointment Assistant lightkeeper's residence: $224–$299 per night depending on season, head lightkeeper's residence: $318–$424 per night depending on season North Head Lighthouse Rd.
Staff love to tell the tale of a duck that blew off course in 1932, crashed through a lighthouse window and chipped the lantern's mammoth lens. North Head is known as the windiest lighthouse area in the nation, frequently recording wind speeds of 100 miles per hour. "The residences themselves and the furnishings are very luxurious compared to the primitive camping you might envision at a state park." "They're absolutely gorgeous," says Linda Burnett, a spokesperson for Washington State Parks.
Nearby are the Assistant Lightkeepers' residences-smaller, but still beautiful. Located in Cape Disappointment State Park, the Head Lightkeeper's home is a century-old Victorian house with breathtaking views of the ocean. Three lovely rental residences await overnight visitors near Washington's famed 65-foot-tall North Head Lighthouse at the mouth of the Columbia River, a treacherous and turbulent stretch of water where the river meets the Pacific Ocean. Check out these four in the Pacific Northwest, which allow you to experience what it's like to live in a lighthouse.Ĭape Disappointment State Park | Ilwaco, Wash. Lighthouse stays are available in more than a dozen states. The goal: offer visitors unique lodging while preserving the structures and keeping them accessible to citizens. has handed over many federally owned lighthouses to local municipalities, nonprofits and private operators. That's why many old lighthouses are finding new life as charming bed-and-breakfasts and rental homes. Today, most lighthouses are automated, and most ships are guided by satellites, radar and computers rather than lights, horns and bells from a distant tower. Once guardians of the seashore, lighthouses stood tall against wind and storm, guiding ships of yore to safety along America's coastline. Lighthouse stays are available in more than a dozen states.Many old lighthouses are finding new life as charming bed-and-breakfasts and rental homes.Most lighthouses are automated%2C and most ships are guided by satellites%2C radar and computers today.
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