West Quoddy Head

West Quoddy Head, a rocky headland near Lubec, Maine, is the easternmost point of the contiguous United States, the first place in the lower 48 to greet the morning sun. It looks out across the Quoddy Narrows toward Canada's Campobello Island, where some of the highest tides in the world surge in and out of the Bay of Fundy twice a day.

The point is crowned by the candy-striped West Quoddy Head Light, a red-and-white banded lighthouse built in 1858 that is one of the most photographed in New England. Frequent fog, cold North Atlantic water, and dramatic tides give the headland a stark, end-of-the-map feeling. (The easternmost point of the U.S. by longitude actually lies far away in the Aleutian Islands, where the chain crosses the 180th meridian.)

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