Crisp Point Lighthouse is a magical spot … 19 miles via dirt road from Michigan #123. To reach the closest town of any size, Newberry, it is a 80 minute drive. As a lighthouse keeper, one does NOT go out for pizza (or anything else). Molly and I first became keepers at this remote light 11 years ago. Unlike fancier lighthouses, there is NO keeper’s residence. Our home during our time as keepers is our three person pup tent … pitched only yards away from Lake Superior. Only the current keepers may camp at the light. Thus, one gets a magical spot to oneself with tens of miles of undeveloped, wilderness shoreline.

Some folks have asked me how one may become a keeper. While there is no cost to be a keeper, you must work from 10 am to 6 pm hosting visitors, running the museum gift shop and keeping the facilities clean. On November 1st of any year, people who desire to be keepers for the following summer or fall make their request off the Crisp Point Light Historical Societies web site. Learn more about that process. Select the link to learn more about becoming a keeper.

Crisp Point is at the far eastern end of Lake Superior … about 13 miles before Whitefish Point and the entrance to Whitefish Bay. The Edmund Fitzgerald ore boat sank 50 years ago about 7 miles off this light.

Without further adieu … the moods of Crisp Point Lighthouse over five days. As keepers we may go up in the lighthouse whenever desired, including sunrise and sunset. I have more sunrise images because I tended to work long past 6 pm, keeping the light house open for visitors who also wanted to visit this magical spot towards sunset. All lighthouse keepers are volunteers and unpaid.

Crisp Point Lighthouse at Sunrise

Crisp Point Lighthouse at Sunset