Aboard the New Jersey Lighthouse Challenge Oct. 16 and 17, towering sites plus museums are right here in Southern Ocean County: Barnegat Lighthouse, open for climbing, and the nearby Barnegat Light Museum, which houses the original Fresnel lens highlight the north end of Long Beach Island.

And on the mainland, Tucker’s Island Lighthouse at the Tuckerton Seaport in Tuckerton is a reproduction of the building that fell to the sea on Tucker’s Island.