A Light at Land's End

The West Quoddy Light is perched at the eastern-most point of the US.

About 100 miles up the coast from where we are in Acadia National Park is the town of Lubec, Maine. Lubec is a fishing community of about 1,500 located on the border with Canada and is the main access point for Campobello Island from the US. Campobello is home to Roosevelt Campobello International Park. We spent a night in Lubec as part of our visit to Campobello and discovered the West Quoddy Lighthouse has a wonderful museum that tells the history of this corner of the country. A stone behind the lighthouse marks this as the eastern-most point in the continental US. Perched on a rocky coastline with treacherous underwater rocks lurking just off shore, the West Quoddy light and many others along the southern coast of Main continue to provide much-needed guidance to mariners as they have since this area was settled.