Split Rock Lighthouse is celebrating its 100th birthday. Completed by the U.S. Lighthouse Service in 1910, today it is one of America's best-preserved lighthouses and a top tourist attraction in the ...

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An iconic site on the Lake Superior shoreline will be briefly closed to tourists this spring for repair and restoration. Construction at Split Rock Lighthouse in Two Harbors will start May 5, the ...

A legendary Minnesota landmark has a new addition. The Split Rock Lighthouse Visitor Center has a new full-sized replica of the lighthouse beacon. The replica weighs 650 pounds and is more than 5 feet ...

Split Rock Lighthouse wasn't a tourist destination for Beulah Covell-Myers - it was home for much of her childhood. The daughter of Franklin Covell, one of only two head Split Rock lighthouse keepers, ...

In the early years of the 20th century, iron ore shipments on Lake Superior doubled and redoubled. United States Steel’s bulk ore carriers became “the greatest exclusive freight-carrying fleet sailing ...

Split Rock Lighthouse is a special place to stargaze, and people are invited onto the grounds after hours to experience it for themselves. “I get the luxury of seeing that all the time,” Split Rock ...

Split Rock Lighthouse is almost done with its most extensive programmatic update in a generation. “This is one of the biggest projects that I’ve been involved with in my professional career,” said ...

Work began this month on a project aimed at protecting and preserving one of Minnesota's most visited attractions.

TWO HARBORS — If you're going to replicate a lens comprising 252 prisms, you want to avoid half-measures. "It was a big expense," said Hayes Scriven, standing next to a replica of the lens that ...

TWO HARBORS, Minn. — Under the glow of Split Rock Lighthouse, thousands gathered Monday evening to remember one of the Great Lakes’ darkest nights — the loss of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. The annual ...