Category: Outdoor
Getting outside in Door County is a must! While you can always explore a trail or lake shore on your own, the calendar is dotted with guided hikes, wildlife tours, bird watching treks, and cross-country skiing meetups. Find a group bicycle ride, a naturalist session, or paddleboard tour and explore Door County’s natural wonders.
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Ice Skating Available at Fitzgerald Park
Ice skating will be available in Liberty Grove this winter at Fitzgerald Park off of Garrett Bay Road in Ellison Bay. Look for the rink beyond the driveway near a small house. The town highway crew maintains the small ice rink. The rink won’t be flooded until the temperatures are below freezing for a few […]
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Door to Nature: The Symmetry of Norway Spruce Cones
As long as I can remember evergreen tree cones have been a traditional part of the decorations for the holiday season. Most people don’t think of a flower when they pick up a pine cone any more than they do when they eat an apple. The intricate shapes of cones fascinate people, while the lip-smacking […]
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Bridge to Bridge Run in Sturgeon Bay Dec. 13
The Door County Silent Sports Alliance is hosting the sixth annual Bridge to Bridge Holiday Lights Fun Run and Walk Dec. 13. The run starts and finishes at Kitty O’Reilly’s Irish Pub, 59 E. Oak St., Sturgeon Bay. Presented by the Door County Silent Sports Alliance, the free three-mile event begins at 6:30 pm. The […]
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Kewaunee’s Winter Park Nearly Ready to Debut Magic Carpet
The installation and inspection of the Magic Carpet at Winter Park in Kewaunee County is a wrap. Now, all that’s needed for the Kewaunee County Promotion & Recreation Department to put its five snow guns to use to create the perfect conditions for snow tubing, skiing and snowboarding, is for the temperature to drop below […]
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Kids Invited to Hike the Evergreen Forest at Crossroads
Family outings at Crossroads at Big Creek in Sturgeon Bay are special. When youngsters are along, it takes a little extra time to cover a trail, but the kids always survive and usually notice things that adults might miss. Families are invited to take park in a hike of the evergreen forest Dec. 9 at […]
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Sister Bay Ushers in 2018 with Inaugural Cherry Drop
Sister Bay will once again welcome in the New Year with a bang. The 4th annual New Year’s Eve celebration starts with Door County’s only fireworks show, scheduled for Dec. 31, 8 pm at Marina Park. Weather permitting, the ice rink at the Sister Bay Sports Complex will be open. Bring along a hockey stick […]
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Peninsula State Park Offers First Day Hike
Peninsula State Park will sponsor a First Day Hike Jan. 1, 2018, offering visitors the opportunity to rejuvenate by taking a family friendly trek led by Friends of Peninsula State Park. “This is a great way for the whole family to start off the new year with a healthy activity,” said Chris Holicek, president of […]
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Door to Nature: Confusing House and Purple Finches
My Grandma Skala saw eye-to-eye, in a sense, with Roger Tory Peterson, famous ornithologist, artist and writer. Grandma, not influenced by prior reading or ornithological study, provided my mother and me with a perfect description of the male purple finch’s color in 1941. We were relaxing on lawn chairs in the shade of the McIntosh […]
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Buck Harvest Up During Gun Season
Another Wisconsin nine-day gun deer season is in the books, and preliminary registration numbers show a slight increase in statewide buck harvest. Similar to 2016, northern counties again showed the most significant increases in both buck and antlerless harvest. “No matter how you look at it – whether from a social or economic standpoint – […]
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Beekeepers of Door County to Hold Dec. 4 Meeting at Crossroads
Last Monday, the Friends of Crossroads decked the halls of the Collins Learning Center. They invite all to visit the Center between 2 – 4:30 pm daily to check out the Snowy Owl in the Wildlife Exhibit, enjoy the new bird feeding station and see the decorations. On Dec. 1 at 2 pm the Friday […]
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Don’t Buy A Department Store Telescope for Christmas
by Tom Minahan, Door Peninsula Astronomical Society Let’s assume you have a budding astronomer in the family or as a friend. If you are thinking about getting them a telescope for a holiday gift, please heed this sound advice from experienced amateur astronomers: Don’t buy a cheap department store telescope! They typically have inferior optics […]
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Do you enjoy eating Cucurbita pepo pie (kew-CUR-bi-ta PEEP-o) as much as we do? I’m speaking of that famous Thanksgiving treat, pumpkin pie. Our annual Thanksgiving feast enjoyed with good friends would be incomplete without a scrumptious homemade pumpkin pie. In thinking back to my childhood in Kewaunee, I do recall having pumpkin pie for […]
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Permit Available for Stream Habitat Projects
Beneficial stream habitat projects will be easier to undertake in Wisconsin with a new general permit the state Department of Natural Resources has issued aimed at streamlining stream habitat projects. Before the creation of this general permit, many beneficial stream habitat projects were authorized under individual permits, which added time and expense to the permitting […]