Lighthouse decorated with LED lights

A New York lighthouse is to be lit up this year with LED bulbs.

This is the first time the Montauk Lighthouse, in Long Island, will be decorated with festive lights.

Up to 3,000 LED bulbs are going to be attached to the structure, which measures approximately 110-feet in height, by company Look Great Services.

A festival has been organised in a few weeks time in order to turn on the LED lights and make the horizon glow.

Children from a local school have been given the opportunity to activate the bulbs which run around the top and middle of the lighthouse.

A museum attached to the lighthouse will also be decorated with the innovative technology.

Kenneth Bliss, from the lighting company, revealed that it was a challenge putting the LED bulbs in place.

“It’s not an easy task – the museum building is easy, that’s just like a house,” he told the East Hampton Town News.

“When it comes to the tower, that’s going to be a little more interesting because we can’t screw or anchor anything into the structure itself.”

Construction of the Lighthouse first began in 1796 under the rule of George Washington.