There’s something mystical about lighthouses — something otherworldly in the way they rise up from the ground and cast off their surroundings. That’s the feeling I got when I stayed at Pigeon Point ...

PIGEON POINT, Calif. -- Pardon my smugness, but at the moment I'm watching shooting stars arc across the night sky as I soak in what's arguably the most dramatic hot tub along the California coast.

Fifty miles south of San Francisco, you can relax in a hot tub with panoramic views of the Pacific, then fall asleep gazing up at one of the tallest lighthouses in America. Perched on a cliff on the ...

What you’ll see: By day or by night, by land or by sea, the Pigeon Point Lighthouse — on the San Mateo County coast, south of the turnoff for Pescadero — is a beacon for recreation, cheap lodging, ...

Named for the 1853 wreck of the clipper ship Carrier Pigeon, Pigeon Point Lighthouse in Pescadero was first lit on Nov. 15, 1872. The 115-foot structure is the tallest operating lighthouse on the West ...

PESCADERO — When U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton visited Pigeon Point Lighthouse 12 years ago, she touted a new federal, state and private partnership to protect one of Northern California’s most ...