Location:
In Newport, just off US 101Contact Information:
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Newport, OR
(541) 265-5679
Yaquina Bay Lighthouse Website
Tours:
Open every day except major holidays, with free entrance (donation requested). The lantern room is not open to the public, but this lighthouse has the best displays of a lightkeeper's home of any on the Oregon coast.Facilities:
Flush toilets, gift shop downstairsGetting to Yaquina Bay Lighthouse:
Traveling south on US 101, exit just north of the Yaquina Bay Bridge. Traveling, north on US 101, exit immediately north of the bridge. While it looks like this exit takes you east side of the highway, it passes under the bridge and leads to the lighthouse.
Vital Statistics:
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Height: 51 feet
Elevation: 161 feet
Lens: The original, fifth-order Fresnel lens was removed and the current lens was installed in 1996
Signature:
Fog Horn:
Yaquina Bay Lighthouse History:
Built 1871, the Yaquina (pronounced Yah-KWIN-uh) Bay Lighthouse was decommissioned in 1874, when the more powerful Yaquina Head Lighthouse was built a few miles away. It was used as a Coast Guard Lifeboat Station afterward and eventually restored as a privately-maintained aid to navigation on December 7, 1996.
