Cape Decision Light

Cape Decision is a lighthouse located on Kuiu Island adjacent to Sumner Strait in Southeast Alaska.

The lantern was proved ineffective and consequently Congress appropriated $59,400 in 1929 for a lighthouse and construction began in September of that year.

However, weather and inadequate funds delayed the completion of the station until it finally became active in March 1932.

The lighthouse became automated in 1974 and in 1989 fire damaged the tram, dock, boathouse, hoist house, paint shed, and helipad.

The original third order Fresnel lens was replaced in 1996 with solar powered aero beacon.