
— the white tower above a shipwreck coast.

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“A white brick tower on a low bluff above Lake Superior, between Grand Marais and Munising on Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The light went into service in 1874 to mark the Au Sable Reef, a long shoal that has wrecked a string of nineteenth-century freighters. The station is reached by a 1.5-mile walk in from the Hurricane River campground on the Lakeshore Trail. — from the studio
Au Sable Light Station stands on Au Sable Point in Alger County, Michigan, on the Lake Superior shore inside Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. The tower was built in 1873 and lit in 1874 to guide ships past the Au Sable Reef, a shallow sandstone shoal that runs offshore for nearly a mile. The conical brick tower rises 87 feet, with the keeper's quarters attached at the base. The light was automated in 1958 and is now managed by the National Park Service as a preserved historic site.
The Au Sable Reef is a long submerged sandstone shelf running parallel to the shore, in places only a few feet below the surface in calm water. Before the light went up, the reef wrecked at least ten vessels in three decades. Several of those wrecks — the Sitka, the Gale Staples, and the Mary Jarecki among them — still sit on the shoal in shallow water, with timbers and iron visible from the bluff above. Lake Superior itself averages about forty degrees Fahrenheit even at the height of summer along this stretch of coast.
There is no road to the station. Visitors reach the light by walking 1.5 miles from the Hurricane River Campground along the Lakeshore Trail, a section of the longer North Country National Scenic Trail. The walk is mostly level, with one steady climb at the end. The National Park Service offers ranger-led tours of the tower on summer weekends, with a small fee for the climb. The campground access road closes in late autumn. Nearest services are at Grand Marais, twelve miles east on H-58.