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The Owls Head Light is an active aid to navigation located at the entrance of Rockland Harbor on western Penobscot Bay in the town of Owls Head, Knox County, Maine. The lighthouse is owned by the U.S. Coast Guard and licensed to the American Lighthouse Foundation..

Location: Owls Head, Maine
Coordinates: 44°05′31″N 69°02′39″W
Constructed: 1825
Foundation: Granite
Construction: Brick
Tower height: 9 m (30 ft)
Tower shape: Cylindrical
Markings: White with black lantern
First lit: 1825
Automated: 1989
Focal height: 100 feet (30 m)
Lens: 4th order Fresnel lens[2]
Range: 16 nautical miles (30 km; 18 mi)
Characteristic: Fixed white
Fog signal: Horn: 2 every 20s

I viewed this lighthouse on August 21 2021. I took a boat cruise past this light on July 17 2022

The lighthouse is owned by the City of Rockland but is leased to Friends of Rockland Harbor Lights, a chapter of the American Lighthouse Foundation Dwelling/tower opens.

Camden Harbor Cruises offers a tour that passes by Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse.

The keeper’s dwelling is home to the American Lighthouse Foundation’s interpretive center,.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 18 1978

Access: Car