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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DNR Biologist Visits White Cedar Nature Center
Join DNR Biologist Jennifer Redell July 21, 7:30 – 8:15 pm, at the White Cedar Nature Center to see live bats and learn about Wisconsin’s only flying mammal, bats. Discover why Door County has lost nearly 90 percent of its “cave” bats, and what this means for Wisconsin. This program is suitable for all ages. […]
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Weather Wizard: Elusive Summer Silence
I once discovered and then later rediscovered, that in summer, true silence is unattainable. Face down in the water, gripping a cold graphite spear, I hovered effortlessly. My controlled breathing sounded like Darth Vader through the snorkel. My eyes wandered back and forth behind my swim mask, looking for movement or shadows on the rocky […]
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Washington Island’s Worldwide Golf Weatherman
Golf tournaments – from local charity outings to professional spectacles – are at the mercy of Mother Nature. Joe Halvorson understands that well, and he makes sure everyone involved at a tournament is aware of potential weather-related hazards. Halvorson, who grew up on Washington Island and attended Kewaunee High School, is an on-site event meteorologist […]
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Groundbreaking Grant Approved for Genetic Study
In what scientists call a groundbreaking effort, the Fund for Lake Michigan has approved a grant to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) School of Freshwater Sciences to sequence the DNA and analyze the genetic makeup of three aquatic species, including Yellow Perch and the Green Bay Mayfly. The Lake Michigan Genome Project will help safeguard […]
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DNR, Turkey Federation Partner to Fund Position
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and the National Wild Turkey Federation officially joined financial forces to secure hunting and fishing participation by funding a new position to introduce novices and reactivate inactive veteran hunters and anglers in Wisconsin. A signing ceremony held at the DNR Central Office building in Madison on July 14 sealed […]
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Artisan Art Crawl, Summer Cherry Harvest and More Weekend Plans
Midsummer is here in Door County. If you haven’t started hitting the beaches on the bay side, now may be the time to start. To complement your weekend fun in the sun, here’s a list of this weekend’s top festivals and attractions. Friday, July 21 Birch Creek Jazz 1 Concert Series Birch Creek Music Performance […]
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Roy & Charlotte Lukes: Rainy June Should Bring July Chanterelles
One of our favorite sayings in May tells us to look for morel mushrooms when the newly emerging oak leaves are the size of a mouse’s ear. Associations between seasonal happenings in nature can be interesting and fun as well as easy to remember and downright helpful. Our daily walks through our woods reveal a […]
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Donation Challenge Set to Bring Bald Eagle to Bird Sanctuary
Bruce Arduser took a fateful tour with a hiking group last fall that resulted in his leading the charge to raise funds for a permanent home for a Bald Eagle to become a part of the educational mission of the Open Door Bird Sanctuary (ODBS). One of the members of the hiking group arranged for […]
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by Don Gustafson Insect pollinators, bees, wasps, butterflies, moths, beetles and flies are in trouble. Populations are disappearing at alarming rates due to pesticides, parasites, diseases, lack of crop diversity (mono crops such as corn, soybean and wheat fields), flowerless landscapes (lawn) and poor management practices. According to the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, we have […]
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Group Seeks Lighthouse Preservation on Poverty Island
By Tim Sweet Lake Michigan’s Poverty Island is a 186-acre link in the Grand Traverse Island chain that stretches from Wisconsin’s Door Peninsula northeastward to the Garden Peninsula in Upper Michigan. It is home to a historic light station that has fallen into a state of disrepair since the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) abandoned the […]
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Kids’ Triathlon Gives Big Stage to Little Athletes
On July 15, around 300 kids will line up on the beach at Frank Murphy County Park in their cap and goggles, ready to take on a short course of the Door County Triathlon with all the bells and whistles of the major event. “The kids really get into it because it has all the […]
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Whitefish Dunes Celebrates 50 Years
Whitefish Bay has always been special, especially the north end. Except for a couple of buildings and a one-lane gravel road wending its way southward to what had been the old fish house on Whitefish Bay Creek, it’s been a blank place on the map, referred to ironically as “undeveloped.” This not-so-subtle suggestion for “development” represents […]
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Algoma Farm Hosts Roots Revival Education & Jam Fest
When Laura and Phillip Lotto first purchased their Algoma farmhouse in 2012, they admit to entertaining visions of a sprawling Woodstock-esque music festival taking over their 35 acres. It was a vision that matched their free spirits, love of music and the budding entrepreneurs within. As they began growing their family and transforming their property […]
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Ephraim Quilt Walk Highlights Historic Peninsula Farmhouse
Vicki and Wes Maynard are used to playing the role of hosts to strangers, though it wasn’t a role they expected to take on when they first bought their 1898 farmhouse on Gibraltar Road in Fish Creek. Once they learned the home’s history and its ties to Door County’s oldest family names, though, it was […]
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Annual Lavender Festival Celebrates July, Bees
Island Lavender Company is celebrating their fourth Annual Island Lavender Blooming Festival throughout July at both of their locations in Ephraim and Washington Island. As part of the Festival, Island Lavender is hosting “Art Buzz at Island Lavender” – a celebration especially devoted to bees. Art Buzz at Island Lavender will feature visiting artists discussing, […]
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“All Things Lavender” Festival Blooms July 21-23
Fragrant Isle Lavender Farm & Shop will host its third annual “All Things Lavender” Festival July 21-23. Festival hours are 10 am to 5 pm Friday and Saturday and 11 am to 4 pm Sunday. The festival takes place among 14,000 blooming lavender plants, an aromatic sea of purple. Festival highlights include daily seminars presented by […]
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Door County Folk Festival, Cathy Grier And More Weekend Plans
Ever wanted to learn how to square dance? How about escaping the heat and spending time at a park doing fun activities for the whole family? There’s even a golf tournament for fans of the game to sink their teeth into. Come on up and enjoy mid-July with us on the peninsula and on Washington […]
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27th Classic & Wooden Boat Fest Arrives Aug. 12, 13
On Aug. 12 & 13, the Door County Maritime Museum will hold the 27th Annual Door County Classic & Wooden Boat Festival. The weekend will be filled with beautiful wooden boats, a boat sale and the Sikaflex Boat-Building Challenge. During the festival Door County Adventure Center is offering an up close and personal paddling experience […]
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Biking, Running Trails Could Come to Sturgeon Bay’s Big Hill Park
Sturgeon Bay could be getting the first mountain bike skills park in Door County by the end of 2018. At its meeting June 28, the Sturgeon Bay Parks and Recreation Committee gave the thumbs up for the Door County Silent Sports Alliance (DCSSA) to pursue grants to build a 1.25-mile off-road cycling and running trail […]
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Crossroads Hosts Family Programs Beginning July 5
Beginning July 5, Crossroads at Big Creek will host family programs on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays with Summer Educator Joan Wilkie. Adults without kids are also welcome to participate in the hands-on activities. The programs begin at 10 am and are free and open to the public. On July 11, explore the “Gifts of Glaciers.” […]