The 115-foot-tall landmark, built in 1871, has been closed to tourists for 23 years
JP Pelletier, site superintendent for the Pigeon Point Lighthouse restoration project, shows off where brick and iron is being assessed near the top of the 115-foot-tall landmark on the San Mateo County coast, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. The winds howled and the waves crashed 100 feet below as J.P.
Under a $16 million project overseen by California’s state parks department, scaffolding went up a few months ago. Construction workers have begun methodically probing, testing and measuring the structure, which shares the title as tallest lighthouse on the West Coast with Point Arena Lighthouse in Mendocino County.
Since they began the serious work in June, workers have been removing lead paint by hand, which in some places is 12 coats thick. They have pulled up the floors in the old wooden lightkeeper’s residence adjacent to the tower to seismically retrofit the building, from its walls and the chimneys. Roger Wykle, lead contractor on the Pigeon Point Lighthouse restoration project, tours the 115-foot-tall structure, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, on the San Mateo County coast. Wykle is president of the Moraga-based Sustainable Group.
Work is scheduled to be completed in September 2025, said Julie Barrow, special projects coordinator for state parks. Barrow said the decision hasn’t been made yet whether to allow the public back in when the work is finished. She said that there are considerations, including the Americans with Disabilities Act, that the state parks officials are still studying.
For decades, the lighthouse was owned by the Coast Guard. Before that, lighthouses were a critical part of early California’s history. When California’s budget reached a big surplus in 2021, Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers provided $18.9 million to fund the entire Pigeon Point restoration project.“It’s phenomenal out here,” said Stephanie Powell, visiting from San Diego with her mother, Laura. “The coast and the cove are beautiful, and the lighthouse is a real draw.”“I hope they let people back up to the top,” Laura Powell said. “I’ve been through lighthouses on the East Coast and in San Diego.
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