Point Piños Lighthouse at Sunrise; Monterey, CA

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Point Piños Lighthouse is the oldest active lighthouse on the West Coast. For nearly 150 years, the picturesque light at Point Piños has warned ships that the entrance to Monterey Bay can be a dangerous place. Piños has shone since 1855 and the building, third-order Fresnel lens and prisms of the light are all original.

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