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The two RV Gypsies arrived at the Yaquina Bay Lighthouse parking lot just after the lighthouse had closed for the day. They were very disappointed, but they took a few photos of the bridge and the bay from the parking lot. |
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 The
Yaquina Bay Light is a lighthouse built in 1871 soon
after the founding of the city of Newport, Oregon, United States. It
is located on the north side of Yaquina Bay, the most populated port
between Puget Sound and San Francisco at the time. The Yaquina Bay Light
was built by Ben Simpson and first lit on November 3, 1871. It was active
for only three years due to the establishment of the Yaquina Head Light
in 1873, located 3 miles north of Yaquina Bay. The bay lighthouse was
decommissioned on October 1, 1874, because the Yaquina Head Light made
it obsolete. The fifth order Fresnel lens was moved to the Yerba Buena
Light for its opening in 1875.
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In
1934, the Oregon State Highway Division bought the property around the
lighthouse for a state park. The park site included the lighthouse,
coast guard observation tower, and acres of forested bluff, ocean dunes
and beaches.
The Yaquina Bay structure is the only existing lighthouse in the state in which the living quarters are housed in the same building as the light. Only a few of this type were built on the entire Pacific coast.
The building is reputed to be haunted. |
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Below: On the drive back to Florence, Lee
Duquette stopped to get gas, and Karen Duquette snapped the photo shown
below of a building with a light beacon on it. It is a Law Office according
to the sign on the building. |
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