Description: Built in 1872, the Big Shippagan Lighthouse is one of nine octagonal wooden towers remaining in New Brunswick. Although the tower's third-order Fresnel lens is long gone, it still supports a beautiful Chance Brothers lantern, the only one of its kind remaining in the province.

Location: Located on a sand bar on Lamèque Island, on the east side of the southern entrance to Shippegan Gully.
Latitude: 47.72214
Longitude: -64.66061

For a larger map of Big Shippagan Lighthouse, click the lighthouse in the above map or get a map from: Mapquest.

Travel Instructions: From Shippegan continue north on Routte 113 across the causeway to Lameque Island then take your first right on Chemin Chiasson. After 4.6km (2.9 miles), turn right just past the Village of Chiasson onto Allee Domitein. This dirt road becomes quite rough after 0.8km (0.5 miles), so parking at this point and walking the last 0.9km (0.6 miles) to the lighthouse is recommended.

The lighthouse is owned by the Canadian Coast Guard. Grounds open, tower closed.

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