A total of seven coastal lighthouses line the shoreline of North Carolina, there are seven standing lighthouses. Six of the seven allow visitors to tour and-or climb to the top, albeit, only during their open season, with Ocracoke light being the one lighthouse not available to climb.

There have been other lights that have guided seafarers along the North Carolina sea shore and have been deactivated, decommissioned, and or destroyed; and this number is numerous.

Bald Head Island Light (1794/1817)

Bodie Island Light (1847)

Cape Hatteras Light (1803)

Cape Lookout Light (1812)

Currituck Light (1875)

Oak Island Light (1849)

Ocracoke Light (1798)

Campbell Island Light-Wilmingon (1849-1865)

Cape Fear Light-Cape Fear (1903-1958)

Croatan Shoal Light-Croatan Sound (?-1864)

Diamond Shoal Light-offshore (1966-2001)

Federal Point Light-Kure Beach (?-1881)

Frying Pan Shoals Light-offshore (1964-2003)

Hatteras Beacon-Buxton (?-1898)

Laural Point Light-Laurel Point (1880-1950)

Long Point Beacon Light-Currituck (1901-?)

Neuse River Light-Vandemere (1828-?)

North River Light-Albemarle Sound (1866-1917)

Pamilco Point Shoal Light-Mesic (1828,1891-1950s)

Price Creek Light-Southport (1849-1865)

Roanoke Marshes Light-Croatan Sound (1831,1877-1955)

Roanoke River Light-Albemarle Sound (1867,1903-1941 decomm., moved)

Wade Point Light-Pasquotank River Entrance (1855,1899-1950s)