Old Mackinaw Point, MI

Photographer: Jeffrey W. Churill

Old Mackinac Point

Mackinaw City, MI

Built : 1892

Type : Round, brick

Status : Inactive

Location : Mackinaw City, MI just of I-75. Take the exit just before the bridge into Mackinaw City. Follow along the East side of the bridge heading North, you can't miss it.

Height : 45 feet

Access : Car, with parking near the light.

History of the Light : Originally built in 1890 as a fog signal, she became an official lighthouse two years later when a light was added to the tower. She shines over the Straits of Mackinaw from the most Northern point of the lower peninsula of Michigan. The Coast Guard in 1957 decommissioned the light, and in 1960 the Mackinaw Island State Park Commission took ownership, and is now a maritime museum. It was in the running for the national lighthouse museum, but lost out to the site in Massachusetts.

Photographer: Debbie Westin