Light 2 of 8 · first lit 1861
Brindle Rock Light
A cast-iron tower pinned to a tidal rock you can walk to at low water. The trust's hardest commute.
- First lit
- 1861
- Status
- Automated until 2019, now monitored
- Access
- Exterior only
- Current keeper
- Cass Holloway
- Keeper tenure
- 22 years
- Trust since
- 1896
Every tower earns its own habits. Brindle Rock Light teaches visitors the same lesson each season: the coast does not care about your schedule, and the people who work here have made peace with that.
What a visit looks like
Exterior viewing only: bring binoculars and a tide table. Volunteer guides meet you at the gate, tell you the tower's grounding stories, and send you up or out depending on the weather. If the lamp room is working that day, you will see it from behind the rope line, exactly where a keeper would want you.
Why it matters
The Meridian Coast lost two towers to demolition before the trust stood up. Brindle Rock Light survives because people pay admission, join as members, and show up to paint in November. That is the whole economics of it.