The Ponce Inlet Lighthouse is open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Please head to their website for more information on tours, ponceinlet.org.

The Ponce de Leon lighthouse, in the final moments of daylight, at Lighthouse Point Park in Ponce Inlet, Fla.., Saturday, September 1, 2012. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel) newsgate ID# B582349445Z ...

Ponce Inlet, a few miles south of Daytona Beach, features a lighthouse, great surfing, a dog-friendly beach, several places to eat and catch a fishing charter as well as its own pristine shoreline.

Sometimes as the sun slowly fades over the horizon, Thomas Taylor climbs to the top of the Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse and marvels at the view of Daytona Beach to the north. He leans against ...

The Ponce de Leon Inlet lighthouse is one of this area’s most striking landmarks — a classic, picture postcard, children’s book illustration, calendar-page-looking, red-brick lighthouse.

PONCE INLET — Winds whip across an empty gravel parking lot on the former site of the Critter Fleet fishing charter operation across the street from the Ponce de Leon Lighthouse and Museum, but ...

Ponce de León Inlet, popularly known as Ponce Inlet, was known as Mosquito Inlet when the red brick lighthouse was first constructed in 1835.

Ponce Inlet, a few miles south of Daytona Beach, features a lighthouse, great surfing, a dog-friendly beach, several places to eat and catch a fishing charter as well as its own pristine shoreline.

Steven Oshinski, a docent at the Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse, talks about the lantern room. Patrick Connolly / Orlando Sentinel The full moon as seen from Orlando on Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018.

In the early 1500s, Ponce de Leon came here in search of a boat that had been separated from his fleet by strong currents. He named the area Bay of the Cross and set forth exploring. By 1569 ...

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The Ponce De Leon Inlet Light Station was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1998. Most visitors make the climb to the top of the lighthouse, Mann said.