The 100th birthday candle gets lit Saturday as Split Rock Lighthouse marks the exact date 100 years ago the icon first shot a beam across Lake Superior. There will be a special lighting ceremony, ...

Split Rock Lighthouse will host its annual event on Nov. 10, a half-century after the big freighter sank in a violent storm.

Minnesota's North Shore Scenic Byway transforms into something extraordinary each autumn, when sugar maples blaze orange and ...

The Split Rock Lighthouse beacon, located along the Lake Superior shore near Beaver Bay, Minn., is lit at dusk on Nov. 10, 2010, to recognize the anniversary of the sinking of the freighter Edmund ...

Split Rock Lighthouse is a special place to stargaze, and people are invited onto the grounds after hours to experience it for themselves. “I get the luxury of seeing that all the time,” Split Rock ...

TWO HARBORS — If you're going to replicate a lens comprising 252 prisms, you want to avoid half-measures. "It was a big expense," said Hayes Scriven, standing next to a replica of the lens that ...

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THE KEWEENAW, MI — These 10 lighthouses once guided ships around the treacherous, rocky shores of Michigan’s northernmost peninsula. The Keweenaw Peninsula juts out into Lake Superior from the ...

The four men and one woman, age 29-58, had camped three nights on the exposed basalt outpost and spent their days cleaning up the stone fortress to ready it for sale. They also collected artifacts to ...