Split Rock Lighthouse

Tour a 1910 lighthouse and keeper's home perched on a 130-foot cliff above Lake Superior.

3713 Split Rock Lighthouse Rd · Two Harbors, MN

About Split Rock Lighthouse

Split Rock Lighthouse stands on a 130-foot cliff above Lake Superior on Minnesota's North Shore. It was built in 1910 after a 1905 storm damaged or sank 29 ships on the lake, and it was retired in 1969. The Minnesota Historical Society runs the 25-acre site, where you can go into the lighthouse, the fog signal building, the oil house and a keeper's residence, and see exhibits and a film in the visitor center. It sits inside Split Rock Lighthouse State Park.

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