[8] According to Harrington, it washed completely over 93-foot-tall (28 m) Pilot Rock offshore, and broke over the top of the 175-foot-tall (53 m) bluff on which the lighthouse stood.

In 1949, the Trinidad Civic Club constructed a facsimile of the tower in a park overlooking the harbor and installed the original lens in its structure as a memorial to those lost or buried at sea.

In the late 1960s, the Coast Guard razed the original dwelling and barn and constructed the present triplex, opened in 1969.

Complaints from the citizens of Trinidad Head were so vocal that the Coast Guard installed the present ELG 300, operated by a fog detector.

[5] The replica building along with the original lens was moved to tribal land at the bottom of the unstable bluff to prevent possible loss due to erosion.

[11] The lighthouse was listed as Trinidad Head Light Station on the National Register of Historic Places on September 3, 1991, reference number 91001098.