Active U.S. Coast Guard aid to navigation. Property is owned by the City of Rockland and managed by Friends of Rockland Harbor Lights, a chapter of the American Lighthouse Foundation.

Accessibility: The lighthouse is at the end of a 7/8-mile-long breakwater, so visiting requires a nearly two-mile round trip walk. It is open weekends in summer. For more information, visit Friends of Rockland Harbor Lights. 

Station established: 1902

Present lighthouse built: 1902

Automated: 1965

Construction materials: Wood, brick

Height of tower: 25 feet

Height of focal plane: 39 feet

Original optic: Fourth-order Fresnel lens

Present optic: VRB-25 (below)

Characteristic: Flashing white every five seconds

Fog signal: One blast every 15 seconds