WHAT IS A TOUR LIKE?
Visitors meet their guide, read and sign the release of liability and depart Vines Landing
aboard our boat Light Runner which can carry 16 visitors on each scheduled trip.
We take a 15 minute trip out to Wood Island and debark from Light Runner on the boatramp
Vines Landing
Wood Island boatramp
Tour Hosts welcome visitors to the island and relate to them the history of the lighthouse giving guests the
feel of what it would be like to be a lighthouse keeper over the last 200 years of operation. Photos are used
and the lighthouse itself is a small museum with displays.
We walk on a wooden boardwalk ½ mile to the lighthouse.
It is safe but irregular and quite high in places (no handrails).
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Your guide will unlock the lighthouse so you can go into the dwelling house. There are lots of photos and
displays telling about life on the island. You can ascend the tower in small groups with a tower host,
learn about how a lighthouse works and enjoy a beautiful view.
You can also walk all around the grounds and to the oil house.
On your 2015 tour – you will see the newly restored porch on the Keeper’s house.
We gather with the gulls on the platform in front of the house.
View from our Webcam before our 2012 restoration. Come on a tour and see the new look!.
We installed our new handrail system in 2008 making a trip to the top of the tower
possible for our visitors.
BECAUSE THE VIEW IS AWESOME!
After the tour, photos and enjoying this wonderful spot,
We return to together to the boatramp for departure.
Visitors will have the opportunity on the trip home
to give a donation to the Friends of Wood Island Lighthouse
to help with the cost of operating and maintaining Light Runner, her two moorings, the
boatramp and boathouse.
All people who have provided your trip are volunteers.
If you visit Wood Island you will have visited one of Maine’s only two island lighthouses
which are open to the public and have scheduled tours.
Thank you for coming.
We invite you to visit Wood Island Lighthouse an unique experience.