Isle Lighthouse News Today

Discover ways to summer 2023 spend time in the Erie area during your vacations, staycations, weekends, days off and hot summer nights.

Summer will be here before you know it and at Presque Isle, that means sand, swimming, a lighthouse birthday, concerts on the beach and more in 2023.

Officially known as the Erie Harbor North Pier Light Structure and sometimes referred to as a lighthouse, it needs someone new to maintain it.

The Erie Art Museum, City of Erie and Union City Borough also earned Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission grants awarded on Thursday.

Beaches will open for swimming, a new play area is ready, the lighthouse is renovated and the Sunset Music Series and Discover Presque Isle have dates set.

The Erie Land Lighthouse is about to get a new keeper. Presque Isle Lighthouse staff will oversee daily operations of the iconic Erie landmark starting April 1 under terms of a two-year management agreement finalized Wednesday between the Erie-Western Pennsylvania Port Authority and the Presque Isle Lighthouse board of directors. The historic 48-foot-tall sandstone tower is located at the foot of Lighthouse Street, about three blocks east of East Avenue, in Erie.  Under the agreement, the Po...