TWO HARBORS, MN (CBS-3) – Split Rock Lighthouse is temporarily closed after the facilities took a lightning strike Monday afternoon.
Lightning struck a tree near the parking lot.
The lighthouse site manager says the electricity then went from a nearby light pole to the visitor center, and fried some of the building’s internal systems.
The visitor center and historic site will be closed for at least the next couple days for assessment and repairs, with a goal of being open again by the weekend.
Split Rock Lighthouse is one of the most photographed and visited spots in the state.
The lighthouse was decommissioned in 1969, but the lantern is still in operational condition and is lit each November 10 during the Edmund Fitzgerald Beacon Lighting Ceremony.
Split Rock Lighthouse is a Minnesota Historical Society site.
(from CBS3-Duluth)
(photo from Minnesota Historical Society)
