Planning trips with Lighthouses close to airports?

[iliad]

Has anyone here ever planned a coastal (eastern US) trip that may take in
lighthouses?
Looking at trying to hop along the coast this summer from Florida (my state)
all along east coast
visiting lighhouses along the way.

[Flyingmonk]

Plenty on NC's Outer Banks.

The Monk

[Morgans]

"iliad" > wrote in message
om...
> Has anyone here ever planned a coastal (eastern US) trip that may take in
> lighthouses?
> Looking at trying to hop along the coast this summer from Florida (my
> state) all along east coast
> visiting lighhouses along the way.

I have done all of the NC lighthouses, driving. Sorry, not much help, for
you.
--
Jim in NC

[BTIZ]

most of the light houses in New England (NH MAINE) are out on a point of
land...
far from many airports unless you fly in and then rent a car for a couple of
days.

I did work with a photographer once, taking aerial photogs of some Maine
light houses

BT

"iliad" > wrote in message
om...
> Has anyone here ever planned a coastal (eastern US) trip that may take in
> lighthouses?
> Looking at trying to hop along the coast this summer from Florida (my
> state) all along east coast
> visiting lighhouses along the way.
>
>
>

[Cub Driver]

Biddeford, Maine.

Hampton, N.H.


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[Roy Smith]

In article >,
"iliad" > wrote:

> Has anyone here ever planned a coastal (eastern US) trip that may take in
> lighthouses?
> Looking at trying to hop along the coast this summer from Florida (my state)
> all along east coast
> visiting lighhouses along the way.

Montauk Point Light (http://www.montauklighthouse.com) is only a couple of
miles from Montauk Airport (KMTP). I once flew out there, got a cab into
town, rented bicycles from the bike store, and rode out to the lighthouse.

From there, it's just a quick jump over the Block Island (KBID) to see
Southeast Light (http://www.lighthouse.cc/blockisoutheast/).

No fuel available at either KMTP or KBID, so do some flight planning before
you go.

[Wiz]

What a great idea for an odyssey (sorry, couldn't resist). Seriously,
great idea. Definitely check out KHSE (Billy Mitchell Airport in
Hatteras, NC) and KMQI (Dare County Regional in Manteo, NC). Plenty of
beautiful, historic lighthouses in between, including the Cape Hatteras
lighthouse, which was moved 2,900 feet inland, in a massive engineering
project, to prevent it falling into the sea due to erosion (take a look
at the National Park Service site on this:
http://www.nps.gov/caha/lrp.htm)

Have fun -- and post the trip report, please.

Regards,
Wiz

iliad wrote:
> Has anyone here ever planned a coastal (eastern US) trip that may take in
> lighthouses?
> Looking at trying to hop along the coast this summer from Florida (my state)
> all along east coast
> visiting lighhouses along the way.

[Steve Foley]

Aeroplanner will let you plug in a latitude and longitude, and gives you the
chart for that area. I'm sure some lighthouse list somewhere has the lat/lon
of all the lighthouses along the east coast.


"iliad" > wrote in message
om...
> Has anyone here ever planned a coastal (eastern US) trip that may take in
> lighthouses?
> Looking at trying to hop along the coast this summer from Florida (my
state)
> all along east coast
> visiting lighhouses along the way.
>
>
>

[Roy Smith]

In article <bGs_f.263$5f7.31@trndny03>,
"Steve Foley" > wrote:

> Aeroplanner will let you plug in a latitude and longitude, and gives you the
> chart for that area. I'm sure some lighthouse list somewhere has the lat/lon
> of all the lighthouses along the east coast.

It's called, strangely enough, the "Light List".

http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/pubs/LightLists/LightLists.htm

[Maule Driver]

And don't forget Okracoke. The only way out there is by ferry or
aircraft. Nice strip, great location. If you can carry a bike you can
bike to the town and the lighthouse.

You have to hurry up because none of the lighthouses are where they were
relative to where they should be now. The outerbanks is just a sand
dune/shoal. One storm and they change shape almost as you watch. But if
you want to build a home, it's the perfect place I'm told.

Wiz wrote:
> What a great idea for an odyssey (sorry, couldn't resist). Seriously,
> great idea. Definitely check out KHSE (Billy Mitchell Airport in
> Hatteras, NC) and KMQI (Dare County Regional in Manteo, NC). Plenty of
> beautiful, historic lighthouses in between, including the Cape Hatteras
> lighthouse, which was moved 2,900 feet inland, in a massive engineering
> project, to prevent it falling into the sea due to erosion (take a look
> at the National Park Service site on this:
> http://www.nps.gov/caha/lrp.htm)
>
> Have fun -- and post the trip report, please.
>
> Regards,
> Wiz
>
> iliad wrote:
>
>>Has anyone here ever planned a coastal (eastern US) trip that may take in
>>lighthouses?
>>Looking at trying to hop along the coast this summer from Florida (my state)
>>all along east coast
>>visiting lighhouses along the way.
>
>

[Chris Ehlbeck]

Maule Driver wrote:
> And don't forget Okracoke. The only way out there is by ferry or
> aircraft. Nice strip, great location. If you can carry a bike you can
> bike to the town and the lighthouse.
>
> You have to hurry up because none of the lighthouses are where they were
> relative to where they should be now. The outerbanks is just a sand
> dune/shoal. One storm and they change shape almost as you watch. But if
> you want to build a home, it's the perfect place I'm told.
>
> Wiz wrote:
>
>> What a great idea for an odyssey (sorry, couldn't resist). Seriously,
>> great idea. Definitely check out KHSE (Billy Mitchell Airport in
>> Hatteras, NC) and KMQI (Dare County Regional in Manteo, NC). Plenty of
>> beautiful, historic lighthouses in between, including the Cape Hatteras
>> lighthouse, which was moved 2,900 feet inland, in a massive engineering
>> project, to prevent it falling into the sea due to erosion (take a look
>> at the National Park Service site on this:
>> http://www.nps.gov/caha/lrp.htm)
>>
>> Have fun -- and post the trip report, please.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Wiz
>>
>> iliad wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone here ever planned a coastal (eastern US) trip that may
>>> take in
>>> lighthouses?
>>> Looking at trying to hop along the coast this summer from Florida (my
>>> state)
>>> all along east coast
>>> visiting lighhouses along the way.
>>
>>
>>

Beaufort County Airport (73J, Beaufort, SC is a very short distance from
the Hunting Island Lighthouse on Hunting Island, SC.

[Cub Driver]

On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 05:25:41 -0400, Cub Driver <usenet AT danford DOT
net> wrote:

>
>Biddeford, Maine.
>
>Hampton, N.H.

Oh, and I forgot: Knox County, Maine.

(You want to fly around these lighthouses, right, not walk to them?)


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