Exploring Sandy Hook, NJ: updated for 2025 — The Empty Nest Explorers

Newly spruced up, America’s oldest Colonial operating Light station, the Sandy Hook Lighthouse after months of restoration, is having a special event day to celebrate its official reopening to the visiting public. The historic landmark lighthouse, first lit in 1764, was closed from October through June as a result of extensive repair work to maintain its historical elements for appearance. Most of the work was done to the interior of the lighthouse tower where inside and lens room walls and cupo

Nation's oldest lighthouse turns 250 years old