About

Range Light is written by Mara Wick.

Writing about lighthouse preservation: the engineering, the archives, and the volunteers keeping these towers standing. Occasional field notes from restoration sites.

This corner of it is about range lights specifically. Paired towers, set back from one another, that a mariner lines up to know they are in the channel. They are the least photogenic navigational aid ever built and among the most useful, which is roughly why nobody writes about them.

Corrections and additions are welcome. If you maintain or have worked on a range in service, I would like to hear from you.