Westport Light State Park
— — the tallest lantern on the Washington coast.
Not only on a wall.
“Grays Harbor Light rising out of the dunes south of Westport, white and octagonal, the tallest lighthouse on the Washington coast. The state park keeps the tower in view from a boardwalk along the foredune, with the long beach to the west and the jetty at the harbour mouth to the north. Light here belongs to the sea: low grey mornings, the foghorn carrying inland, an hour of clean afternoon sun before the marine layer comes back across the spit. from the studio
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Westport Light State Park is a 212-acre day-use park on the south side of the entrance to Grays Harbor, in the town of Westport, Washington. Its centrepiece is Grays Harbor Light, a 107-foot octagonal masonry tower completed in 1898 by the United States Lighthouse Board to mark the harbour entrance for lumber and fishing traffic. The light is the tallest lighthouse on the Washington coast and the third tallest on the West Coast of the United States. A paved boardwalk along the foredune connects the lighthouse area to Westhaven State Park to the north.
The original first-order Fresnel lens was lit on June 30, 1898, throwing a beam visible roughly twenty miles offshore. The Coast Guard automated the station in the 1990s; the historic lens was removed and is now on display at the Westport Maritime Museum a short drive away. The active light shows an alternating red and white flash from a modern optic, on a tower whose walls are five-and-a-half feet thick at the base. Coastal fog along this stretch of the Washington coast is most frequent in summer; the foghorn still carries well inland on a grey morning.
The park is open year-round for day use, with restrooms, a paved boardwalk, and a small parking lot off Ocean Avenue and Lighthouse Road. A Washington State Discover Pass is required for parking. The lighthouse grounds are reached by a short walk; interior tours of the tower are offered seasonally through Westport-South Beach Historical Society and the maritime museum, usually April through September. The 1.3-mile boardwalk north to Westhaven gives an unbroken view of the surf zone and is the easiest place in town to watch a Pacific sunset.