The winds howled and the waves crashed 100 feet below as J.P. Pelletier, a burly union ironworker from Buffalo, New York, inched his way out onto dizzying scaffolding near the top of Pigeon Point ...

Amidst an ongoing $18 million restoration project of the Pigeon Point Light Station Historic Park, community members are invited to celebrate the lighthouse’s 153rd anniversary with a lighting of the ...

The winds howled and the waves crashed 100 feet below as J.P. Pelletier, a burly union ironworker from Buffalo, New York, inched his way out onto dizzying scaffolding near the top of Pigeon Point ...

The 151-year-old Pigeon Point lighthouse is the “grand dame” of the West Coast and it’s kicking off a reconstruction project that will allow visitors to enter it for the first time in 20 years.

Lighthouses have served humanity as protective sentinels guiding us home for nearly two centuries. Since the mid-1800s, when Santa Cruz served as a bustling port for lime, redwood and other ...

Pigeon Point Lighthouse, a towering 19th century white brick structure that is one of the most venerable historic landmarks on Northern California’s coastline, has been closed to the public for more ...

Named for the 1853 wreck of the clipper ship Carrier Pigeon, Pigeon Point Lighthouse in Pescadero was first lit on Nov. 15, 1872. The 115-foot structure is the tallest operating lighthouse on the West ...