Named for the 1853 wreck of the clipper ship Carrier Pigeon, Pigeon Point Lighthouse in Pescadero was first lit on Nov. 15, 1872. The 115-foot structure is the tallest operating lighthouse on the West ...

Lighthouses have served humanity as protective sentinels guiding us home for nearly two centuries. Since the mid-1800s, when Santa Cruz served as a bustling port for lime, redwood and other ...

Amidst an ongoing $18 million restoration project of the Pigeon Point Light Station Historic Park, community members are invited to celebrate the lighthouse’s 153rd anniversary with a lighting of the ...

The winds howled and the waves crashed 100 feet below as J.P. Pelletier, a burly union ironworker from Buffalo, New York, inched his way out onto dizzying scaffolding near the top of Pigeon Point ...