Old Mackinac Point Light
Old Mackinac Point Light is a deactivated lighthouse located at the northern tip of the Lower Peninsula in the U.S. state of Michigan. The lighthouse is part of Fort Michilimackinac State Park in the village of Mackinaw City just east of the Mackinac Bridge.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: James Marvin Phelps, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Building
- Description: lighthouse in Michigan, United States
- Also known as: “Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Colonial Michilimackinac Park and Fort Michilimackinac.
Colonial Michilimackinac Park
Park
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Fort Michilimackinac State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located in Mackinaw City along the Straits of Mackinac. The park contains Fort Michilimackinac, which itself is dedicated a National Historic Landmark and Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse as well as the Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse Signal Tower which contains a foghorn.
Fort Michilimackinac
Museum
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Fort Michilimackinac was an 18th-century French, and later British, fort and trading post at the Straits of Mackinac; it was built on the northern tip of the lower peninsula of the present-day state of Michigan in the United States. Fort Michilimackinac is situated 1,700 feet west of Old Mackinac Point Light.
Mackinaw City Historical Marker
Memorial
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Mackinaw City Historical Marker is a memorial, which is situated 2,500 feet southeast of Old Mackinac Point Light.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mackinaw City and St. Ignace.
Mackinaw City
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Mackinaw City is a city of 800 people in the Mackinac Area at the tip of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. It's the southern terminus of the 5-mile Mackinac Bridge.
St. Ignace
Photo: Royalbroil, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Ignace is a city in the Upper Peninsula of the state of Michigan, at the north end of the Mackinac Bridge.
Old Mackinac Point Light
- Category: lighthouse
- Location: Mackinaw Township, Cheboygan, Michigan, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
45.78751° or 45° 47′ 15″ northLongitude
-84.72946° or 84° 43′ 46″ westElevation
584 feet (178 metres)Open location code
86QQQ7QC+26OpenStreetMap ID
way 286202414OpenStreetMap feature
building=yes
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In Other Languages
“Old Mackinac Point Light” goes by many names.
- French: “phare de Mackinac Point”
- French: “Phare de Mackinac Point”
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