Schooner Coast Lighthouses

As of 2015. Hours, prices and phone numbers on this page are kept as the original site listed them (captured May 7, 2015). Check current information with each attraction before you go.

A number of the lighthouses along the Schooner Coast can be viewed close up. At any time, you can walk out to the Manitowoc Breakwater Lighthouse, Kewaunee Pierhead Lighthouse, Sturgeon Bay Canal Lighthouse and Sturgeon Bay Canal North Pierhead Lighthouse.

The Two Rivers North Pierhead lighthouse is on display at Rogers Street Fishing Village. The village is open May-Oct. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on weekdays and noon-4 p.m. on weekends. Admission is $4 for adults and $2 for children under 16.

Rawley Point Lighthouse can be seen from a hiking trail at Point Beach State Forest, 9400 Cty. Hwy. O, Two Rivers, open daily 6 a.m.-11 p.m. A vehicle admission sticker is required for entrance to the forest in order to see Rawley Point Lighthouse. $7 daily pass for a vehicle with WI plates, $10 daily pass for a vehicle with out-of-state plates.

The Algoma Pierhead Lighthouse can only be viewed from shore.

Added in 2026

Access to the lights has barely changed since this page was written, but two practical notes have.

Rawley Point Light inside Point Beach State Forest is still an active Coast Guard light and the keeper's house is a residence; the tower is not open to the public, so the view from the beach trail is the visit. At 111 feet it is the tallest lighthouse on the Wisconsin shore. The vehicle fees quoted above ($7 and $10) were the 2015 rates; the Wisconsin DNR publishes the current daily and annual admission prices.

In June 2019 the Coast Guard replaced the old Fresnel lenses in the Kewaunee and Algoma pierhead lights with LED beacons. Kewaunee's lens is now displayed at the Kewaunee County History Center; Algoma's went to the North Point Lighthouse museum in Milwaukee. Kewaunee's tower, owned by the city since 2011 and on the National Register since 2022, opens for occasional tours during restoration.

Sources: Wikipedia articles on Rawley Point Light, Point Beach State Forest, Kewaunee Pierhead Light and Algoma Light (read November 2026).

Questions visitors ask

Which Schooner Coast lighthouses can I walk right up to?

The Manitowoc breakwater light, the Kewaunee pierhead light and the two Sturgeon Bay canal lights can be reached on foot along their piers, weather permitting. Algoma's light is best seen from shore, Rawley Point from the Point Beach trail, and the old Two Rivers light stands on the grounds of Rogers Street Fishing Village.

Is it safe to walk the piers?

In calm weather, yes. In storms and when waves wash over the concrete, stay off: Great Lakes piers are slick and people are swept off them every year.

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