Built: 1898

Type: Octagonal pyramidal

Height: 107 ft

Status: Active

Location: S. Entrance Grays Harbor Point Chehalis

Deactivated: 

Lens: Third Order Fresnel Lens / Present FA-251

Signal: Diaphone/Orig, Siren

Keepers: 

Notes: Construction of the Grays Harbor light began in 1897, and in 1898 Grays Harbor lighthouse was lit.  It is the tallest lighthouse in Washington and the third tallest on the west coast.
In August 1992, the original Fresnel lens was turned off.  The new light operates on a 35 watt bulb.  The Fresnel lens assembly originally floated in a trough containing twenty gallons of mercury.  During the 1990's health concerns arose over the mercury filled drum and the tower was closed to the public.  In 1998 Westport-south beach Historical Society negotiated a lease agreement with the Coast Guard, to clean up the lighthouse.  In 2004 Westport-south beach Historical society was granted ownership of the Grays Harbor Lighthouse, under the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act has a 5-year plan to restore the lighthouse and it third order Fresnel Lens.