• Alcatraz Island Lighthouse is a lighthouse—the first one built on the U.S. West Coast—located on Alcatraz Island in California's San Francisco Bay.[4]...
  • The Alcatraz Island Lighthouse is decaying and is in critical need of repair. If we don't preserve it now, we will lose this priceless historical landmark and...
  • Alcatraz Lighthouse is located atop the southern end of the island near the entrance to the prison. The interior of the tower is not typically open to visitors.
  • The first lighthouse on the West coast and a must see when on Alcatraz. To be honest you can't really miss it when on the island.
  • Alcatraz Island , Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Alcatraz Island profile showing lighthouse towering over the Warden\'s House.
  • Alcatraz Island was an important place for a lighthouse, because of the huge influx of people to the San Francisco Bay Area as a result of the Gold Rush.
  • The Alcatraz Lighthouse is an iconic symbol of the San Francisco Bay Area, located on the rocky island of Alcatraz and visible from miles away.
  • Source: http://www.alcatraz.us/alcatraz-virtual-tour/alcatraz-lighthouse.html. Hours: There are daily boat tours out to Alcatraz Island.
  • The Alcatraz lighthouse had a third-order Fresnel lens from France. A mechanized fog bell was added in 1856, on the southeast end of the island.
  • The Alcatraz Island Lighthouse was first lit in 1854, and like most lighthouses of its time, it used oil lamps as its primary source of light.