Owls Head Light, Owls Head

Name: Owls Head Light
Address: Owls Head, United States

#1 among attractions in Owls Head

Top attraction, Lighthouse, Vernacular architecture

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The Owls Head Light is an active aid to navigation located at the entrance of Rockland Harbor on western Penobscot Bay in the town of Owls Head, Knox County, Maine. The lighthouse is owned by the U.S. Coast Guard and licensed to the American Lighthouse Foundation. It is the centerpiece of 13-acre Owls Head State Park and was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Owls Head Light Station in 1978. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 44°5'32"N, 69°2'38"W

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Owls Head Light – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Rockland Residential Historic District, Rockland Breakwater, Farnsworth Art Museum, Maine Lighthouse Museum.

3.6 miW
Park, Italianate architecture, Greek Revival architecture
Rockland Residential Historic District, Rockland
93 min walk • The Rockland Residential Historic District encompasses a predominantly residential area west of the downtown of Rockland, Maine.
1.9 miNW
Lighthouse
Rockland Breakwater, Rockland
48 min walk • The Rockland Breakwater is a breakwater sheltering the harbor of Rockland, Maine. More than 4,000 feet long, it was built in the 1890s by the United States Army Corps of Engineers out of locally quarried granite to improve the harbor's ability to shelter ships from coastal storms.
3.3 miW
Museum, Historical place, Art museum
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland
84 min walk • The Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, United States, is an art museum that specializes in American art.
3.2 miW
44°6'8"N • 69°6'28"W
Maine Lighthouse Museum, Rockland
83 min walk • Museum, Specialty museum, Lighthouse
3.2 miNW
Ship
American Eagle, Rockland
83 min walk • The American Eagle, originally Andrew and Rosalie, is a two-masted schooner serving the tourist trade out of Rockland, Maine. Launched in 1930 at Gloucester, Massachusetts, she was the last auxiliary schooner to be built in that port, and one of Gloucester's last sail-powered fishing vessels.
3.3 miW
Cinema, Concerts and shows, Theater
Strand Theatre, Rockland
85 min walk • The Strand Theatre is a historic performing arts venue at 345 Main Street in downtown Rockland, Maine. Built in 1923 in the wake of a fire that destroyed part of the downtown, it is a rare example of Egyptian Revival architecture, and the only one of three theaters built in Rockland in that period to survive.
3.3 miW
Ship
Stephen Taber, Rockland
83 min walk • Stephen Taber is a two-masted schooner, built in 1871, operating as a "windjammer" in the tourist trade out of Rockland, Maine.
3.4 miW
Ship
Isaac H. Evans, Rockland
88 min walk • Isaac H. Evans, originally Boyd N. Sheppard, is a two-masted schooner berthed in Rockland, Maine. She is a Maine windjammer, serving the tourist trade.
3.4 miSW
44°3'59"N • 69°6'4"W
Owls Head Transportation Museum, Owls Head
86 min walk • Specialty museum, Museum
1.9 miNW
Lighthouse
Rockland Harbor Breakwater Light, Rockland
48 min walk • Rockland Harbor Breakwater Light is a historic lighthouse complex at the end of the Rockland Breakwater in the harbor of Rockland, Maine. Replacing a light station at Jameson Point, the light was established in 1902, about two years after completion of the breakwater. Now automated, it continues to serve as an active aid to navigation.
3.2 miW
44°6'12"N • 69°6'28"W
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland
83 min walk • Museum, Art museum