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Here's several other Michigan spots you can see using live camera footage: Detroit: Downtown Detroit , Campus Martius and the Detroit River from Dossin Great Lakes Museum .
The Grays Reef Light is a lighthouse located in northeastern Lake Michigan, 3.8 miles (6.1 km) west of Waugoshance Island in Bliss Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
An added large steel tower atop the light is a radio beacon. The 1953 Coast Guard Light List indicates that the signal transmitted at 296 kHz, send forth a group of half-second dashes for 15.5 seconds, followed by 14½ seconds of silence. As of 2001, both the light and radio beacon served as active navigational aids. [3]
Port Austin Lighthouse (or Port Austin Reef Light) is a lighthouse off the shore of Lake Huron, about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) north of Port Austin, Huron County Michigan sitting on a rocky reef , which is just north of the tip of the Thumb and a real hazard to navigation.
The Michigan Lighthouse Conservancy is a state preservation society, and the Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association is also based in the state. [25] [29] White Shoal Light is one of over 150 past and present lighthouses in Michigan. Michigan has more lighthouses than any other state. See Lighthouses in the United States. [30] White Shoal Light
The St. Joseph North Pier Inner and Outer Lights are lighthouses in St. Joseph, Michigan, US, at the entrance to the St. Joseph River on Lake Michigan.The station was built in 1832 with the current lights built in 1906 and 1907; [1] [4] they were decommissioned in 2005.
Point Betsie Light is located on the northeast shore of Lake Michigan — at the southern entrance to the Manitou Passage — north of Frankfort in Benzie County in Northern Michigan. [3] Construction began in 1854, but it was not completed until 1858, and began service in the shipping season of 1859.
This light is a twin of the Two Harbors Light in Minnesota. [6] Located in Coast Guard District 9, [12] the Round Island Light was built of painted brick in 1895; [13] its construction was funded by a predecessor agency of the United States Coast Guard, and the structure was raised b6 a team led by Mackinac Island mason-carpenter Frank Rounds.