Photos from the trip
Outer Banks
Currituck Beach Light
Corolla, North Carolina
Its real signal — watch it blink
Fl W 20s — one white flash every 20 seconds
One full cycle: 20 seconds.
- Built
- 1875
- First lit
- 1875
- Height
- 162 ft
- Focal plane
- 158 ft above water
- Status
- Still burning
- Visited
- Add your year
The last brick lighthouse built on the Outer Banks, and the only one left unpainted — raw red brick, all 162 feet. It closed the gap in the chain of lights between Bodie Island and Cape Henry. A single white blink every 20 seconds still marks the northern curve of the Banks.