Lime Kiln Lighthouse
San Juan Island
First lit: 1914
Automated: 1962
48.5159 -123.1524
The last major lighthouse established in Washington State, it faces Canada and still watches over the entrance to Haro Strait. It was also the last to receive electricity, not until after WWII.
It is one of the best known lighthouses in the state, known far and wide as a whale observatory. Pods of orcas and gray whales frequently pass close in front of the lighthouse’s craggy doorstep.
