Forty Mile Point Lighthouse

I decided to head down US-23 from Mackinaw City.  Mainly because it a more relaxing drive and also because I wanted to visit a lighthouse I didn't get to visit on my last trip.

 The lighthouse in question is the Forty Mile Point lighthouse near Rogers City.

 It was built in 1896 but because the construction was finished in the winter, it was not lit until 1897.  It is called the Forty Mile Point lighthouse because it is forty miles from Mackinaw Point.  Unlike many other lighthouses on the Great Lakes, it is not marking any particular harbors or rivers.  It was built so that ships would remain under a lighthouse from Mackinaw Point until the mouth of the St Clair River.

Currently the light is automated and it is now part of a County Park.  It's a pretty nice park too.