The best-known lighthouses in Massachusetts
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
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Gloucester is the richest base on the list: Cape Ann Light (Twin Lights) of 1861, Straitsmouth Island Light and Annisquam Harbor Light are all within 8 km. Fort Pickering Light is 2 km from Salem, Deer Island Light 5 km from Winthrop. On Cape Cod, Nauset Light (1873) and Chatham Light are reached from Yarmouth; Race Point Light and Wood End Light sit at the Cape's tip. Edgartown Harbor Light (1939) and Gay Head Light are on Martha's Vineyard.
Massachusetts has 54 named lighthouses on RLQuest's list, 28 of them with a Wikipedia article. The spread runs from Newburyport's Front Range Light to Fairhaven's Butler Flats Light. A walk out to any of them is a quest the app can verify from your route, with every tile along the shore marked as visited.
Every dot is a place. The numbers mark the highlights listed below.
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
A selection, best known first, with the nearest larger town next to each.
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RLQuest knows these places too. Which means:
Some of your daily quests lead to a real place near you. The app uses your location to check you were really there.
If you're the first person in RLQuest to complete a quest at a place, it's your first find. The Place Book shows you which kinds of place you're still missing.
Every walk uncovers tiles, each about 350 m across. Over time you can see which corners you know well, and where you've never set foot.
Place data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. Borders: geoBoundaries (CC BY 4.0); Canada: Statistics Canada. As of 2026-10-02. The list shows the places RLQuest knows and isn't complete. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons; author and license are credited on each photo.
