Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States. Campground office and carts.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States. Main building as you enter the park.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States. This was taken at the scenic overlook off of Hwy 61 south of the park.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States. Visitor building for the lighthouse, which is on the right hand side.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States. View of the lighthouse from site 18.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States. Split Rock Lighthouse.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States. Split Rock Lighthouse.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States. Split Rock Lighthouse.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States. Split Rock Lighthouse.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States. These are the 3 houses the lighthouse workers lived in back in the day.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States. Fog horns.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States. These stairs go up to the lighthouse from the shoreline down below.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States. Rocky shoreline just below the lighthouse. You can walk down a ton of stairs to get here.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States. Halfway up the stairs from the shoreline.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States. 100 years ago the workers built a tram system that would pull supplies up from the shoreline down below. Boats would bring the supplies and they would winch them up in a cart.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States. They have a nice history center here. This picture is of the hoisting engine originally used to pull supplies up the cliff to the lighthouse from the ships below.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States. View from the lighthouse.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States. Storm of the Century sign.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States. Ships of Lake Superior sign.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States. Supplying the Light Station sign.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States. Lamp, Lens, and Beacon sign.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States. Tramway sign.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States. Dock site and pumphouse sign.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States. Steam hoist engine sign.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States. The gales of November sign.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States. The staircase leading up the lighthouse tower.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States. The gear assembly of the light house. The lens floats on a pool of mercury. A weight drops down the tower, turning this gear assembly and thus turning the light. Every two hours operators had to climb the tower and crank the weight back up to keep the rotation in operation.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States. The lens of the light house. Once light by kerosene, the light has now been converted to electric. Though the light is rarely powered.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States. A torch and lamp once used in the Splitrock Lighthouse.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States. Found inside the Splitrock Lighthouse.

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota, United States. Lighthouse keepers uniform. This is on display in the homestead located at the Splitrock Lighthouse.