Spend a night outside looking up at the stars at Split Rock Lighthouse. Tuesday, August 12 is Dark Sky Night at Split Rock ...

The Split Rock Lighthouse was evacuated earlier this week after a fire broke out in the woods near the historic North Shore site, officials said in a social media post. Photos the Minnesota ...

Split Rock Lighthouse up for one of ‘Minnesota’s Best’ Remembering the 47th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald A day in the life of the Split Rock Lighthouse keeper ...

Split Rock Lighthouse was operational from 1910 until 1969 when the United States Coast Guard decommissioned and deeded the lighthouse property, including all of the internal workings of the ...

The Split Rock Lighthouse site, run by the Minnesota Historical Society, sits in Split Rock Lighthouse State Park — up the shore from Two Harbors, between Castle Danger and Beaver Bay — and is ...

The Madeira sank in 1905 a short distance from where Split Rock Lighthouse in Two Harbors now stands. The wheel is on display in the lighthouse's exhibit hall as part of a new attraction.

Visitors, who came by boat, were rare. Although Split Rock’s first head lighthouse keeper spent 18 years at the site, his whole family never joined him permanently, likely because it was so remote.

As Split Rock Lighthouse's first head keeper from 1910 to 1928, Orren "Pete" Young cautioned countless sailors from his cliff-top perch overlooking Lake Superior, 50 miles up the shore from Duluth.

A delegation led by the steamship company president descended upon Washington, D.C. In early 1907, Congress appropriated $75,000 for a lighthouse and fog signal in the vicinity of Split Rock.

DULUTH, Minn. — The 110-year-old Split Rock Lighthouse on Lake Superior’s North Shore is usually only lit once a year to mark the anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald in November.