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Distance
1 miles
Elevation Gain
39 ft
Route Type
Out-and-Back
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Family Friendly
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Easy Parking
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Dog Friendly
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Added by Jake Sells
Visit historic Spring Point Lighthouse and Fort Preble in South Portland to warn sailors and ships coming into the port of a dangerous ledge that extended into the main shipping channel.
Being a less popular lighthouse out of the many in the greater Portland area, parking is easy and crowds are limited. Parking at Fort Prebble is ideal for a short walk to the lighthouse.
Completed in 1897, off the shoreline of Fort Prebble, Spring Point is a unique lighthouse with huge importance to the entry of the channel, of at the time, one of the busiest ports on the East Coast.
Definitely a camera necessary trip. Also catch local fisherman off the breakwater trying their luck on the fish that call Portland Harbor their home.
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Allison Cole
2/1/2023
Cutest little lighthouse
This is such a fun little lighthouse. You can walk down the rock pathway all the way to it if you would like, or ...
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Do Gaudet
5/8/2018
Cute lighthouse and museum
Spring Point was one of our favorite lighthouses on the coast of New England. It is quite interesting to visit the small museum ...
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Zachary Gagné
10/2/2017
Very Different
I’ve always seen pictures of this rock way out to the Lighthouse but I did not expect everything to be so much bigger than ...
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