There was a time when life at the Point Arena Lighthouse required strength, stamina and the discipline to tend to the round-the-clock operational and maintenance needs of the life-saving beacon atop ...

As you crane your neck to take in the 145 iron stairs – 115 feet of climbing in all – that await, you can’t help but grumble that, dang it, the view from the top of the Point Arena Lighthouse had ...

A cat left behind at a Mendocino County lighthouse is now a viral sensation, thanks to a TikTok last week that has been viewed more than a quarter of a million times. The cat, adopted by Point Arena ...

The strangest, coolest and most obscure national monument in California just got less strange and a whole lot cooler. And it's about to become considerably less obscure. Even among outdoor enthusiasts ...

For those in the know, the tiny Mendocino town of Point Arena has always been a secret destination for those traveling along California’s North Coast. The cat was officially let out of the bag in 2014 ...

Some of the locals in Point Arena are a little different from the ones we'd met at the bar - a little less vocal, a lot more shy and we got to know them over a couple rounds of hay rather than beer.