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Currituck Beach Lighthouse. Since 1875, this lighthouse has kept mariners from danger, night and day. The Keepers’ Dwelling has housed more than two dozen families, as their duties of “Lighthouse Keeper” were carried out.
The Currituck Beach Lighthouse is the northernmost lighthouse on the Outer Banks and the state of North Carolina. It’s also the only coastal North Carolina lighthouse to have an unpainted brick exterior, which makes it stand out among the other black and white colored lighthouses along the Outer Banks.
The Currituck Beach Lighthouse is a first order lighthouse, meaning it has the largest of seven Fresnel lens sizes. The original source of light was a Funck's hydraulic float lamp, fueled with lard oil, and consisting of four concentric wicks.
Currituck Beach Lighthouse towers above the northern Outer Banks in the Historic Corolla Village. The last brick and mortar lighthouse built in North Carolina, its unpainted red brick served as a day marker to distinguish it from other coastal lighthouses.
Climb the 220 steps to the top of the majestic, red brick lighthouse. First lit on December 1, 1875. Visit the Currituck Beach Lighthouse in Corolla, NC.
The Currituck Beach Lighthouse is the northernmost lighthouse on the Outer Banks and the state of North Carolina. It’s also the only coastal North Carolina lighthouse to have an unpainted brick exterior, which makes it stand out among the other black and white colored lighthouses along the Outer Banks.
The red-brick Currituck Beach Lighthouse towers above the northern Outer Banks landscape in the Historic Corolla village. Visitors can climb the winding staircase, 214 steps in all, to the top of the lighthouse for a panoramic view of Currituck Sound, the Atlantic Ocean and the Currituck Outer Banks. Inside the lighthouse, at the base and on ...
Outer Banks Conservationists’ two historic sites, (the Currituck Beach Lighthouse and Island Farm) are located in different places on the Outer Banks, about an hour apart from each other. Discover More About Our Historic Sites.
Currituck Beach Lighthouse is located on the Outer Banks in Corolla, North Carolina. It was put on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1973; the lighthouse is the last brick lighthouse built on the Outer Banks.
Discover the historic Currituck Beach Lighthouse on your next visit to Corolla. Climb to the top for panoramic views of the Outer Banks coastline!