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Bass Harbor Head Light

I visited Bass Harbor Head Light in Acadia National Park, Maine, in August 2025. The white keeper's house with the red roof sits at the edge of the water, and the station was wrapped in fog, with the sea going gray behind it. A wet path leads down past a fence toward the house, and a few people were standing at the railing. It was mid afternoon, around 64, with a little light rain and a breeze around 8 miles an hour.

The light station was built in 1858, on the southwestern side of Mount Desert Island. I took this from the path above the house, looking down through the fog toward the water. The day before I had been on Katahdin, about a four hour drive north, and the next morning I was on Cadillac Mountain for sunrise, about a 45 minute drive across the island.