Step up to the panoramic view at Barnegat Lighthouse, which reopened for climbing on Saturday, Aug. 7 on National Lighthouse Day. Freshly cleaned after a year’s closure during COVID, railings sanitized, and wearing new paint at the entrance, “Old Barney” welcomed 155 climbers on Saturday and 394 on Sunday.
Bill Rudowski was first in line with daughters Melanie, 4, and Natalie, 6, at a few minutes before 10 a.m. The girls’ eagerness to get to the top couldn’t be contained, even up 217 steps.
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