This website will be undergoing a much needed update over the next few weeks, so stay tuned. There will be new information, news, and pictures as well as an entirely new site and theme. The lighthouse is looking great after its restoration! I have had the opportunity to have visited several times last summer while on fishing trips in the area and they did a wonderful job. Anyways, stay tuned, there will be new stuff coming soon!

Welcome to the largest source of information on the Anclote Key Lighthouse in the world!

    The Anclote Key Lighthouse sits on the southern tip of Anclote Key off the coast of Tarpon Springs at the mouth of the Anclote River, on Florida's western coast. Built in 1887, the weathered and beaten tower still stands today. Vandalism and nature's elements are to blame for the lighthouse's appearance, for only months ago, it looked like only the bare structure remained. Not a spec of glass stood where windows once were. Vandals ventured over the barbed-wire fence and through locked doors to shatter windows with bricks from the old walkways and destructed the lens to the point where it can never be repaired. But today, several years after its decommissioning, the tower seeks new hope as restoration has finally completed! The Anclote Key Lighthouse once again stands against the test of time, and the beacon's light can once again be seen.

    I hope that you find this website very useful and if you still have any comments whatsoever, please e-mail me by clicking on Contact Me on the navigation bar. Please use this navigation bar to work your way through this site. Please choose Tour/Pictures for photography of the Anclote Key Lighthouse along with information on the lighthouse. History has historic information on Anclote Key and the lighthouse itself. Anclote Light News has the latest news on the lighthouse and Anclote Key State Preserve. Getting to the Lighthouse will help you find boat rentals and directions to make a trip out to the island. Lighthouse Keepers has a list of keepers and some information on them. Plans/Blueprints is the page where you can find the original blueprints for the tower and area.

For new pictures of the lens in the Anclote Key Lighthouse courtesy of Eric Sharp, click here.

Please e-mail any thoughts/comments/suggestions/questions by clicking here.

Special thanks to the following people for continued help with this site:

-Timothy Johnson (List of keepers)

-Roger Bansemer

-Neil Hurley

-David Puigdomenech

-Lary McSparren

Thanks so much!!!

This site last updated Monday, June 16, 2008.