Bodie Island Lighthouse

The Bodie Island Lighthouse tour season lasts from the third Friday in April to Columbus Day in early October. 45-minutes guided tours are offered daily every 35 minutes from 9:00 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.

Designer Dexter Stetson was also the brains behind the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, which explains why the two look so much alike. Bodie, with its wide (22 feet tall) black-and-white horizontal stripes, stands 156 feet tall and is capped by a black cast-iron lantern. It's actually the third lighthouse to guard this area of the coast. The first, built in 1847, was simply abandoned because of its...

The current Bodie Island Lighthouse is the third that has stood in this vicinity of Bodie Island on the Outer Banks in North Carolina and was built in 1872.