Wood Island Lighthouse Maine

The wood island life saving station has stood watch for 111 years.

Wood island lighthouse maine.

The lighthouse is a 47 foot 14 m conical white tower of granite rubble. If you visit wood island lighthouse you will have visited one of only two maine island lighthouses that are open to the public and have scheduled tours. The work is completed and the end results are fabulous. It is an important stop on the eastern seaboard migratory flyway.

Just a few miles upstream from its mouth the saco river divides into two streams that flow around an island and plummet forty feet. About wood island wood island is a 32 acre uninhabited island sitting at the mouth of the saco river just off the coast of biddeford maine. The light itself sits 71 feet 22 m above mean high water. It is a rare experience.

The island hosts a wide variety of birds and is the nesting site for hundreds of seagulls common eiders and other birds. The friends of wood island lighthouse a chapter of the american lighthouse foundation offers special tours during july and august wednesdays thursdays and saturdays of the light tower and keeper s house. I love the boat ride to the island the beautiful walk up and back touring the house and the tower is amazing. Located on an island just offshore from biddeford pool maine wood island lighthouse is a unique maine island lighthouse experience.

Wood island lighthouse the first wood island light was established in 1808 but the station was rebuilt several times during its long history. Wood island light is an active lighthouse on the eastern edge of wood island in saco bay on the southern coast of maine. About wood island station at the mouth of the piscataqua river in kittery point maine a graying old structure of unknown purpose and history was slowly crumbing on a small island. The light is just outside the entrance to biddeford pool and the end of the saco river.

2019 out on maine s coast chronicle 5 wcvb 2018 wood island tour biddeford pool maine video by nancy bernier 2014 a flyover of wood island lighthouse. Friends of wood island lighthouse p o.