Warrior Rock Light, Lighthouse on Sauvie Island, Portland, US

Warrior Rock Light is an octagonal concrete tower on Sauvie Island near Portland that rises 8 meters and rests on a sandstone foundation. The structure marks shipping routes along the Columbia River and its difficult passages.

Congress authorized a lighthouse at Warrior Rock in 1888; Carl Leick designed it and it was built in 1889 as a wood-frame house on a sandstone base, with an oil lamp and a hand-cranked fog bell cast in 1855 at J. Bernhard & Co. in Philadelphia. In 1930 the wooden house was replaced by a 28-foot octagonal concrete tower on the original foundation, and the light was electrified. A barge struck the tower on May 27, 1969, destroying the foundation and disabling the light and bell.

The name Warrior Rock predates the lighthouse and refers to the bedrock reef at the east tip of Sauvie Island that the light was built to mark. The 1855 fog bell, cast in Philadelphia and moved here in 1889 after service at Cape Disappointment and West Point, is now displayed outside the Columbia County Courthouse in St. Helens, beside a half-scale replica of the original wooden lighthouse.

The exterior of the site is open to the public. Reach it by a short boat ride from St. Helens or a three-mile (5 km) hike from the north end of Reeder Road. The tower stands at Columbia river mile 87.2, at the east tip of Sauvie Island.

The fog bell now sits outside the Columbia County Courthouse in St. Helens, cracked after falling into the river when the tower was struck by a barge on May 27, 1969. A half-scale replica of the original wooden lighthouse stands about one mile north-northwest of the site.