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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.

  • Peninsula State Park Superintendent Bruns Resigns

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    Kelli Bruns, Peninsula State Park Superintendent since September of 2011, has resigned. Bruns is taking a position with the Minnesota Division of Parks and Trails at Fort Snelling in the Twin Cities area. She expects to leave after the holidays. Erin Brown, superintendent of Potawatomi State Park in Sturgeon Bay, will step in to offer […]

  • Roy & Charlotte Lukes: Gold in the Swamps

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      Typical of the oaks, there is a red oak near our front yard that is tenaciously hanging on to its leaves. I look at one leaf being spun around by the wind and wonder how long it can be subjected to such constant stress before it finally comes loose and falls to the ground. […]

  • Weather Wizard: Dark So Soon?

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    Autumn is tricky. Some years you get a long, colorful, three act show: multiple Sunday drives, apple orchard trips, and Halloweens with no coat over your costume. These years give you the illusion of time, order, and make you forget what humidity ever was. Eventually, these blissful weekends of jeans and cotton sweaters are shadowed […]

  • Christmas by the Bay Events Return to Sturgeon Bay

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    Come to Sturgeon Bay for sparkling, holiday fun Nov. 18-20. Sturgeon Bay Visitor Center (SBVC) turns on the holiday charm during the annual Christmas by the Bay celebration with a weekend of family friendly activities. Join friends and neighbors at the tree lighting ceremony Nov. 18, 6-8 pm, at the Clock Tower on Third Avenue. […]

  • Great Lakes/Great Books Announces 2017 Book List

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    Write On, Door County is partnering with the Door County Maritime Museum to present Great Lakes/Great Books, a monthly book club featuring books with a Great Lakes focus. Books of fiction, nonfiction and poetry that have the Great Lakes as subject matter or as settings will be discussed with a facilitator from Write On. The […]

  • Rib Fest, Tree Lighting & More Weekend Plans

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    Whoever said Door County is slowing down hasn’t seen this weekend’s events calendar! Celebrate veterans with a free performance by the U.S. Air Force Band, loosen your belt for the 8th Annual Rib Fest, or head over to Ellison Bay for the first Christmas tree lighting of the season in Door! Friday, November 11 A […]

  • Roy & Charlotte Lukes: Juncos, Welcome Visitors

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      Wherever there’s a promise of something so simple and generally unwanted as weed seeds, there in November you’ll find the juncos. Like little gray ghosts with white bottoms, they have filtered into the state, staying to the brushy roadsides and the shrubby edges of woods. Were it not for their flashy white “taillights,” most […]

  • Weather Wizard: Lake Michigan Surfing

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    With all modesty, I’ve posted many surfing pictures of myself on social media over the last few years. The picture posted from late October with a headline simply reading “Lake Michigan, October 26th,” seemed to garner an unusually high number of comments: “You’re crazy,” “Brrr…,” and my favorite, “So cool, pun intended, but why?” It’s […]

  • Two Door County Nonprofits Receive Cellcom Green Gifts

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    Cellcom has put recycled cell phones to work for the local community. The local wireless company has selected 22 nonprofits to receive $37,800 in Green Gifts, which uses money generated from its handset recycling program to annually fund green nonprofit initiatives. Two Door County nonprofits benefitted from the program, Crossroads at Big Creek and Open […]

  • Framed: Jack O’Lantern Days 2016

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    Costumed revelers took over Fish Creek during last weekend’s Jack O’Lantern Days. Photo by Len Villano.

  • Baseball: America’s ‘Beautiful Game’

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    By the time you read this baseball will have a new World Series champion. The Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians are tied with three wins apiece as I write this, and game seven on Wednesday night promises to be historic, regardless of who wins. The Indians have not won a World Series since 1948, […]

  • Fossil Hike Offered at Crossroads at Big Creek

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    Several naturalist-led hikes, a Friday film and a Saturday family program will be offered this week at Crossroads at Big Creek in Sturgeon Bay. The following programs are all free and open to the public. On Nov. 4 at 9 am there will be a hike at Ida Bay. Join the naturalist for a gentle […]

  • Stonecipher Astronomy Center Open for Viewing Nov. 5

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    The observatory at the Stonecipher Astronomy Center will be open to the public for night sky viewing on Nov. 5 at 6:45 pm. The Astronomy Center is located at 2200 Utah St. in Sturgeon Bay. Turn left at the gate onto SkyGazer Trail and follow the road to the observatory on the left. The viewing […]

  • Holly Days in Egg Harbor (Nov. 25-26, 2016)

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    A celebration of the holiday season with Breakfast with Santa, a children’s Elf Hunt, Mistle Dough shopping contest, horse -drawn wagon rides, caroling, old-fashioned tree lighting and more! Schedule below, subject to change. All activities (Breakfast with Santa & Reindeer Drop excluded) are free. Donations are welcome to keep the tradition alive! Friday, November 25 […]

  • Big Fish, Turkey Trot, Nature Hikes & More Weekend Plans

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    Welcome the colder, quieter days of November with a hike through some of the county’s most beautiful areas. Rather spend your time indoors? Catch some live musical theater, a hometown story screening, or a vibrant display of art in Sturgeon Bay. Friday, November 4 Outdoors at Ida Bay Join a naturalist for a gentle hike […]

  • Science Snippet: The Loss of Wilderness

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      What’s happening to the planet’s wilderness areas? A new report suggests that our world has lost 10 percent of its wilderness areas in the past two decades. A general definition of “wilderness” is an area that remains biologically and ecologically intact and is mostly free of human disturbance. Measuring the planet’s remaining wilderness areas […]

  • Cairns: Environmental Art or Vandalism?

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    Editor’s note: Prompted by an Oct. 12 agenda item for a meeting of the Door County Airport and Parks Committee, contributors Paul Burton and Megan Lundahl share their perspectives on environmental art. The agenda item in question was the issue of building cairns at Cave Point County Park. Lundahl, a Door County supervisor, initially requested […]

  • Eye On the Night Sky: Seeing Stars Again

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    by Jerod Santek, Write On, Door County Executive Director On a crisp autumn evening, people gathered at the Roy and Ruthie Stonecipher Astronomy Center for “Stories Under the Stars,” presented by Write On, Door County in partnership with the Door Peninsula Astronomical Society (DPAS). The guest presenter was Robert Mathieu, Professor of Astronomy at the […]

  • Roy & Charlotte Lukes: Gingko Tree, a Natural Survivor

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      Can you imagine a tree that has been described as being weird or “way out,” a fossil tree that is not related to any living family or group in the entire vegetable kingdom? These trees are the sole survivors of a family, rich in species and very widely distributed in both the northern and […]

  • Volunteers Needed for Planting at Little Lake

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    The Bradley Lake (also known as Little Lake) restoration group will finish the planting for Phase 1 of the restoration on Nov. 5, and volunteers are needed. Meet at the site at 9:30 am if interested in volunteering your time. There are 90 shrubs and trees, along with additional trays of emergent plant plugs, to […]