This 107-foot-tall octagonal masonry tower was established in 1898 as a harbor light for the busy fishing town of Westport and a coastal light to assist ships along a dark stretch of shore between Willapa Bay and Destruction Island tight to the north. The 3rd-order Fresnel lens is supplemented by a powerful fog signal, radar and radiobeacon. One of the architectural beauties of the west, Grays Harbor attracts many photographers and artists.

Towering more than one hundred feet from base to lantern, the octagonal Grays Harbor Lighthouse is one of the tallest on the Pacific coast. The light, still focused by the station's original third-order Fresnel lens, serves as a major coastal light and guides vessels to the harbor and fishing town of Westport. The lens has three bull's-eyes, about eight inches in diameter, emitting white and red flashes. The light is visible from about twenty-one miles away.

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