Sturgeon Point Light House (Michigan)

What is it about a lighthouse that is so alluring? Why do people drive miles and miles to visit lighthouses? Is it to seek higher ground? To catch that awesome Birdseye view from the top of the steep and narrow staircase? Some lighthouses are said to be haunted, and there are tours offered to delve into just that aspect of these ancient stone watchtowers. Michigan is bordered by 4 of the 5 Great Lakes, giving it 3,288 miles of shoreline, and lots of lighthouses. There were as many as 247 operating lighthouses in Michigan at one time, but now less than 100 are in good condition. On one sunny day in August, Dan and I decided to take a drive to the Sturgeon Point Light Station, a lighthouse on Lake Huron in Haynes Township in northeastern Lower Michigan. Built in 1869, and established to ward mariners off a reef that extends 1.5 miles lakeward from Sturgeon Point, it is today regarded as a historic example of a Cape Cod style Great Lakes lighthouse.