Lake Havasu City · Shoreline and island · Replica lighthouses
Lake Havasu Lighthouses
Hunt down 28 working replica lighthouses, scaled-down copies of famous lights from both U.S. coasts and the Great Lakes, around the shores and island of a desert lake.
Opens the Lighthouse Club’s list of all 28 lighthouses. The visitor center in English Village has a list of the ones you can reach by land.
Details checked October 2026
Type
Replica lighthouses
28 working navigation lights around the lake
Admission
Free to view
State park lights need the day-use fee; tours extra
Hours
No set hours
City parks close at 11 pm; beacons light up at night
Time needed
2 hr by boat
The narrated tour passes 18 of the 28 lighthouses
Parking
Free at London Bridge Beach
Public lot; no posted RV size limits
Lighthouses
28
The tallest, Cape Hatteras, stands 30 ft
What you’ll see
Three coastlines on one desert lake
The replicas follow a simple pattern: West Coast lights on the California shore, East Coast lights on the Arizona shore and Great Lakes lights around the island. Some you can drive to, and others are boat-only.
Photo: Dorian Wallender on Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Start here
The island and the Bridgewater Channel
The easiest free start is London Bridge Beach, where a path along the Bridgewater Channel leads past several lighthouses on foot. Buffalo Main and Currituck Beach mark the south end of the channel, and a loop drive around the island, across London Bridge, passes Great Lakes replicas like Split Rock and Alpena.
RV tip: pick up the land-access list at the visitor center in English Village before you go, and bring water; the island sites have little shade.
More to see
- Cape HatterasThe tallest replica, at 30 feet, stands at the personal watercraft ramp in Lake Havasu State Park, inside the day-use area.
- Split RockA 21-foot copy of the Lake Superior light at Two Harbors, Minnesota, at the northwest corner of the island.
- Fire IslandA replica of the Long Island, New York, light on Piccadilly Point, just south of Rotary Community Park.
- Angel’s GateThe newest, installed in January 2020, copies the Los Angeles Harbor light and stands on the California side.
Why go
A volunteer project that keeps boaters safe
The Lake Havasu Lighthouse Club formed in 2000, when residents set out to make nighttime boating safer. Its volunteers have built 28 scaled-down replicas of famous U.S. lighthouses, and each is a working, Coast Guard-approved navigation aid. The club calls it the largest navigational collection of replica lighthouses in the world.
The beacons follow Coast Guard colors: green on the West Coast replicas along the California shore and red on the East Coast replicas along the Arizona shore. Each lighthouse carries a plaque on the history of the original, and you can walk right up to them, though you can’t go inside.
For RVers it is a flexible, mostly free outing. Some lights are a short walk from a city parking lot, three sit inside Lake Havasu State Park’s day-use area, and the rest need a boat. If you’d rather sit back, a narrated two-hour boat tour passes 18 of them.
Photo: CWanamaker on Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)
Why it made our list
- 28 working replica lighthouses
- Free to view from city parks and the island
- Built and kept up by local volunteers
- Green and red beacons that light up at night
- A narrated boat tour passes 18 of them
For RVers
Lighthouse hunting with an RV
The practical stuff we wished someone had told us before we pulled in.
Start at London Bridge Beach
London Bridge Beach, at 1340 McCulloch Boulevard, has public parking with access to the island side of the Bridgewater Channel, plus restrooms and ramadas. No RV size limits are posted, so a tow vehicle is the easiest way to hop between lighthouses.
Know which ones need a fee
Cape Hatteras, Cape Henry and East Quoddy stand inside Lake Havasu State Park, where day use is $20 per vehicle Monday through Thursday and $25 Friday through Sunday and holidays. Others sit in city parks or along island roads, and a few are on private or tribal land, so respect posted access.
Mind the heat and the roads
Summer highs run about 105 to 109°F, and the island sites have little shade, so go early or near sunset. One Google reviewer described the road to the Point Gratiot replica as flat, compacted gravel, so leave the motorhome at camp.
Bring the dog, on a leash
Arizona State Parks require dogs on a leash at all times, and London Bridge Beach has the enclosed Lions Dog Park for a break. Dogs aren’t allowed in Rotary Community Park, near the Fire Island replica.
What visitors say about Lake Havasu Lighthouses
The visitor report card
We don’t copy other sites’ reviews, but the published scores are worth reading together. Scores checked October 20, 2026.
The largest navigational collection of replica lighthouses in the world.
The Lake Havasu Lighthouse Club, as quoted by Go Lake Havasu · golakehavasu.com
Reachable by land
Lighthouses visitors report reaching by car or on foot
Split RockVermilionAlpenaEast QuoddyWest Quoddy
Lakelubbers lists Alpena, both Quoddy lights and Robert H. Manning as reachable by car or on foot, and Google reviewers report driving right up to Split Rock and Vermilion. Checked October 20, 2026.
How tall they stand
Heights from the Lighthouse Club and Arizona Highways; the low end of the range is from a 2016 KJZZ report.
Good to know
Viewing from landFree city parks, island
State park day use$20–$25 per vehicle
Narrated boat tour$60 adults; $55 kids 12 & under
Boat tour details2 hours18 lighthousesOct–May, Wed & Thu
Day-use fees from Arizona State Parks; tour price and schedule from Sunset Charter & Tour Co., checked October 20, 2026. Tours leave at 1 pm from the ticket booth in London Bridge English Village.
Know before you go
Plan your visit
Lake Havasu Lighthouses
- AddressLondon Bridge Beach, 1340 McCulloch Blvd N, Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403
- HoursNo set hours
City parks close at 11 pm; beacons light up at night - Phone(928) 855-5655
- ToursNarrated Lighthouse Tour, (928) 716-8687
- Getting thereCross London Bridge on McCulloch Boulevard North and follow the signs to the beach on the island side. The island loop and Lake Havasu State Park, on London Bridge Road, reach more lights.
- ParkingPublic parking at London Bridge Beach. Lake Havasu State Park lots are behind the day-use fee. No posted RV size limits.
The lighthouses have no set hours. City parks close at 11 pm unless posted, and the state park keeps its own visitor center hours.
Where to stay nearby
RV parks near Lake Havasu Lighthouses
These are the Lake Havasu City RV parks we have visited and written up. Lake Havasu State Park has three of the lighthouses on its own shoreline.
Lake Havasu State Park
Windsor Beach campground with 54 water-and-50-amp sites, three boat ramps, sandy beaches and lakeside cabins.
Havasu Falls RV Resort
Tidy full-hookup park on AZ-95 with level concrete pull-thrus, a heated pool and a busy rec hall.
Havasu RV Resort
Gated community of owner RV lots rented by the week, month or season, with two heated pools and a chip-and-putt.
Helpful answers
Frequently asked questions
The questions RVers ask most before pulling in.
No set hours · Free to view
Ready to go lighthouse hunting?
Start at London Bridge Beach, grab the land-access list at the visitor center, and save one evening for the beacons after dark.
Thank you to the people behind these photos and this video. Please support them by giving their work a look. Photos: Dorian Wallender (lighthouse replicas; CC BY-SA 2.0) and CWanamaker (beach path, Why go; CC BY 3.0), via Wikimedia Commons; the images were resized. Video: Arizona’s Family on YouTube (lighthouse story). Review-site logos are trademarks of their owners.
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