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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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.” […]
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June Rain Sets Record for Door County
The 9.57 inches of rain the county received in June, as recorded in Sturgeon Bay, smashed the previous all-time high of 8.26 inches set in 1990 and was the third most ever to fall in Door County in a single month. The average June rainfall is 3.49 inches. The all-time record for rain in one […]
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Door to Nature: Hail to the Mosquito Hawk
One of the most fascinating, beautiful, helpful and misunderstood insect groups is now on the wing, the dragonflies. A very appropriate nickname, “mosquito hawk,” has been used to describe their awesome aerial maneuverability along with their important place in our summer world, that of catching and feasting on, especially, mosquitoes and black flies. You will […]
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Free Home Visits to Battle Invasive Species
The four acres surrounding my family’s house in the Town of Gibraltar is riddled with big shrubs that seem to grow bigger. Kari Hagenow, coordinator for the Door County Invasive Species Team (DCIST), identified them all as invasive honeysuckle and told me the best way to eradicate them during a rainy walk around the property, […]
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Master Gardeners Host Garden Door Presentation July 11
The Door County Master Gardeners Association announces the second in a series of summertime educational events celebrating their free public display garden, The Garden Door. The garden is located on Highway 42 just north of Sturgeon Bay, on the grounds of the UW Peninsular Agricultural Research Station. Join the Master Gardeners on July 11 at […]
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Discovering Door County’s Birds of Prey
By Rob Hults It’s a wonderful privilege to have an encounter with one of the many birds of prey here in Door County: seeing a Bald Eagle, Red-tailed Hawk, Turkey Vulture or Kestrel, or hearing the call of an owl late at night. The opportunity to do so is quite common now, but it hasn’t […]
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How, On Earth, Do We Measure the Universe?
images and article by Steven Ransom-Jones One of my fondest childhood memories, inspired by a great teacher who saw my interest in physics, revolves around borrowing the school telescope over the Christmas holidays. For a few cool, clear winter nights I was able to share with my family some of the wonders of the sky. […]
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America The Band, Root Beer Fest, & More Weekend Plans
Still around after the Fourth? Thinking about a trip up after the crowds have left? Door County’s myriad concert and performance series are all in full-swing. Take your pick as you enjoy the outdoors during the day. Friday, July 7 Oklahoma in Wisconsin Northern Sky Theater’s most recent production, Oklahoma in Wisconsin celebrates Door County through […]
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Welcome to this latest issue of Door County Living, assembled to celebrate the season of plenty here on the peninsula. At 11:24 pm on June 20, we here in the Central Time Zone, along with our friends in other times zones throughout the Northern Hemisphere, entered the summer solstice, the time of long days and […]
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Inside the Dunes Dwelling: Door County’s Hobbit Home
On South Cave Point and Glidden drives, there are dueling stretches, both lake and woodside, of homes and cottages that all have unique stories. One home in particular sits on a two-acre plot on South Cave Point Drive. This home had acquired several nicknames through the years, such as “The Dome” and “Mushroom House.” It […]
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June’s Record Rain Tough on Cherries, Farmers
Door County’s fruit growers are watching the forecast with a nervous eye after orchards were drenched with record rainfall in June. “Cherry trees don’t like to be wet,” said Jim Seaquist of Seaquist Orchards. “Another week or two of rain and we could see some really devastating impacts.” Heavy rain creates conditions ripe for infections […]
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Tour Restored 1919 Tug John Purves For Look Into Great Lakes Past
If you or your guests have not toured one of the largest tugboats on the Great Lakes, now is the time and the Door County Maritime Museum is the place. Visitors can enjoy an all-access, 40-minute guided tour of the tug John Purves, a restored 1919 Great Lakes tugboat. The tour includes exploring the entire […]