Saugerties Lighthouse Hudson
— — the half-mile walk that ends at a window on the river.
Not only on a wall.
“A small brick lighthouse on a spit of land where Esopus Creek opens into the Hudson, reached only by a half-mile trail through marsh and high tide pools. Built in 1869, decommissioned, nearly lost, brought back in the 1980s by a volunteer group and now run as a two-room bed-and-breakfast. The light still works. From the deck the river runs wide and slow and the Catskills sit on the western bank. from the studio
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The Saugerties Lighthouse stands at the mouth of Esopus Creek on the west bank of the Hudson River, about a hundred miles north of New York City. The current brick structure was completed in 1869, replacing an 1835 wooden tower. It marks the channel for vessels turning into the creek and the village of Saugerties. The lighthouse is owned by the Saugerties Lighthouse Conservancy, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and reached by a half-mile trail across tidal marsh.
The Hudson here is tidal, brackish, and wide. The trail to the lighthouse floods at high tide, with portions covered by a foot or more of water twice a day, so visitors check the tide chart before walking out. The keeper's deck looks south down the main channel and west across the creek toward the Catskill ridge. Sturgeon, striped bass, and shad still run this stretch in season, and ospreys nest on channel markers within sight of the building.
Day visitors walk the half-mile Lighthouse Trail from the parking area off Lighthouse Drive, and tour the museum room on weekend afternoons when the keeper is on duty. The two upstairs bedrooms operate as a bed-and-breakfast with reservations months in advance. Bring water, check the tide, and wear shoes that can get wet. Pets are not allowed inside the lighthouse, and the trail is unpaved and uneven.