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Great Lakes Lighthouses: American and Canadian

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This book is almost a bible to me while traveling the Great Lakes Region. It features over 300 lighthouses of both the American and Canadian side of the lakes. The lighthouses are indexed by lake, making a trip to an area, easy to plan and execute. Each lighthouse has a photo (if available), brief description and most importantly to me, access availability and directons.

With the access availability to each lighthouse, (boat, car, private or public), weekend trips are planned to visit each lighthouse in the area. A checkoff box is also printed, to mark off each lighthouse you have visited.

This is a very useful guide to these historic sites, both operational and non-operational, and a valuable reference book.

As a lighthouse enthusiast, I find many recent lighthouse books lacking in what I would call useful information for someone who would actually like to visit them. This book, however, provides all necessary information for the visitor. Many times before I have visited a lighthouse, not knowing that there was another close by. It won't happen again, as this book is complete in its' listings. Especially appreciated is its check list/dating feature. From one lighthouse enthusiast to any others, I highly recommend it.

This book was like a bible to me a few weeks ago when I hunted for 6 lighthouses in the Duluth area. This is not a coffee- table picture book, but more of a dictionary. There's small pictures, brief descriptions, and directions to every house on the Great Lakes! My only concern is that the book is from 1998. So in the case of one of the "endangered" lighthouses, I'd say double-check to make sure it's still there before driving a long ways to see it. Also, a few that are marked "private" are now bed and breakfasts which may have a little more access than a guy's backyard. But these are minor compared to how valuable this book is when exploring our beautiful Great Lakes shorelines.

I take this book with me every time we go Great Lakes lighthouse "hopping". It is loaded with helpful information and I wouldn't consider leaving home without it when on a Lighthouse trek!

I have a few books on lighthouses but this one is amazing. The imformation on each lighthouse giving you the location and a place to check mark it and the date you saw it. I am looking forward to using it on my trip to the lakes in October. Thank you for helping me get the best imformation for my trip.

Great book if you like to travel and search for lighthouses. The directions were good, appreciate when author tells if lighthouse can be reached by car or boat only. Like the idea of being able to checkoff and date the lighthouses I visit.

Not only does this have them all, but it gives directions on how to find them. Whenever we travel to areas of the lights, we make sure to have this book in the car/truck. This is the one to get!

Will put this right in our motorhome and will it be handy on our excursions. A wealth of info here.

great little book to have with me on my "Lighthouse Quest", wouldn't go lighthouse hunting without it

This book is interesting because the photographer (Wayne Sapulski) has managed to photograph almost every single lighthouse on both the Canadian and the American sides of the Great Lakes. There are views I had never seen of lighthouses on the Canadian side of Lake Superior, for example. Unfortunately the photos are quite small B&W images. I presume the color photos will appear elsewhere.

The text is minimal. For each lighthouse, there is a description of the location and the tower. Thus the book is billed as a directory/guide.

Anybody with a serious interest in lighthouses should definitely add this book to their collection.