Eastern Point Lighthouse

Category: Tourist attraction in Gloucester, Massachusetts

Address: Gloucester, MA 01930, USA

Opening hours

Sunday: 8AM–8PM

Monday: 8AM–8PM

Tuesday: 8AM–8PM

Wednesday: 8AM–8PM

Thursday: 8AM–8PM

Friday: 8AM–8PM

Saturday: 8AM–8PM

Reviews

Steven Mahoney

Feb 21, 2022

This place has a lot of character. It’s a photographers playground. Great place to catch a sunset or sunrise.

Nicholas Augusta

Oct 21, 2021

Once you get past all the signs that tell you to turn around its an amazing view. They try to trick you into thinking your going to someone's house and a yacht club (it's a public road don't listen to them) I'm not mad at them. I'd probably do the same thing, but you build your very fancy house on a road that leads to a lighthouse... Parking is $10 cash they want you to leave in a drop box.

edgar labastida

Sep 28, 2021

Eastern Point Lighthouse was awesome. This place is a photographers dream! Although road that leads to it says Private entrance dont mind it just drive until your google driving says you arrived. The views are great you can see the skyline of Boston. Also all the boats next to yacht club amazing. Be careful getting to walkway as it is wet and slippery and you will have to step on rocks/boulders otherwise it is well worth it.

Julianna Bond

Jul 7, 2021

1. Ignore the signs that say private road. The lighthouse is open to the public; don't let the affluent residents scare you off. 2. Bring $10 in cash and a pen to pay for parking collected by the Massachusetts Audubon Society. There is a little stand with envelopes (and a tear off ticket to put on your dash). Write your license plate info on the envelope with the $10 and put it in the slot to pay. 3. The lighthouse itself is closed and fenced off, so you cannot go up to it. 4. You can walk on the sea wall! You can get to the wall via the beach or along a small path in the high grass along the fence line. Views are beautiful. The walkway is pretty even, and is plenty wide. My small dog was able to walk it perfectly fine. We saw folks fishing at the end of the jetty. 5. Dogs are allowed to walk around there.

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Questions & Answers

Are we allowed to visit inside? If so, is there a price?

kia dior | Aug 23, 2020
Rich Roy | Aug 23, 2020

You cannot go inside the lighthouse, it is $10 to park and basically all you can do is get close to the lighthouse, walk the jettie, not the best lighthouse to visit

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I've always bought what they called bluefish or even sometimes Boston bluefish. However, I recently learned that this isn't actually a species of fish but just a local name for pollack? Can anyone either confirm or deny this for me?

Lisa Lucas | Jun 24, 2022
Sarthak Kotecha | Jun 24, 2022

Boston Blue is a type of Pollock, while bluefish is a different fish than Pollock.

Hi. Is this place open to the public and free to visiters?

Daniel Perez | Aug 23, 2021
Omri Drucker | Aug 23, 2021

It is open to the public. There was a man there charging people 10 dollars for parking.

Hows the fishing there

Ralph Howard | Aug 24, 2019
William Mcdonough | Aug 24, 2019

Pretty good ! Locals have fished there for hundreds of years and it's still good.

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