Historic Conover Light Beacon — Attraction in Middletown Township

I love all things lighthouse, and this light nav beacon has been on my list to visit for a while. She was treated to a rehab and the residents seem to love her, as when I said that it's great to see in person to a passerby on the beach, she said, "We love our beacon." So there you have it. I'll have to do some research on her range and specific warning area and update the review when I know. Update 11MAR25 ...and I found her- the Conover Beacon's big sister, the Chapel Hill Range Rear Light. The former Rear Range Light for the defunct Chapel Hill Range across the Sandy Hook Bay into the New York City waterways. She worked in tandem with front range lamps predating the Conover Beacon from 1856 to 1941, and the Conover Light Beacon from 1941 to 1957, when it was decommissioned and replaced by a skeletal Rear Range Beacon 200' south of the Conover Beacon. That second rear lamp was apparently dismantled when housing was developed in Leonardo. The Rear Lighthouse was sold at auction to a Manhattan businessman named Thomas Consorti in 1959 for the sum of $16,313. He purchased it for his son, who was an aspiring astronomer. The former lighthouse on the hill provided a perfect platform for stargazing. Both the Conover Beacon and its predecessors used the same daymark of the solid red against the primary white, as is the livery she is seen in today. The Conover Beacon was originally the front range lamp for the Waackaack Range in Keansburg, NJ, and was known as the Point Comfort Front Range Light, but was moved to its current location in 1941, replacing the aforementioned markers. She was named the Conover Beacon after Rulif Conover, the Leonardo, NJ landowner on whose land the...

The lighthouse is a notable fixture in this small beach town with a great deal of history. It’s not fully accessible, and given the state of the beach at times (seaweed, lots of bay debris) it’s potentially best viewed from the road.

A bit of history: The steel and wooden beacon was first lit in 1856, and is notably marked by its red band.

This now deactivated lighthouse was once the front beacon along the Chapel Hill Channel (which provides a north-south connection between the Ambrose Channel - the main channel into the Narrows - and Sandy Hook Channel, which continues west into...

Yay! So happy! Conover Beacon Lighthouse has just been restored!! For many years it seemed to fall into an increasingly rusted & failing eyesore of decay that was a cause for safety concerns. It was sad to see… This past month I was able to see the restoration process from my front porch. Crews did an amazing job of what seemed to be repairing, sandblasting & painting under a giant tarp. When they finally unveiled the cover it was like a sigh of relief to see it once again beautiful & bright, in freshly painted white & red! Great...