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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Paul Burton to Lead Dragonfly Workshop
A wide variety of specialty hikes are featured throughout July at The Ridges Sanctuary. Discovery Bird Hikes will be held on July 11 and 18 at 6:30 am, while those wishing to sleep in a bit can opt for a Not-So-Early Bird Hike on July 18 at 9 am.
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Anderson Docks-ology Ecumenical Sunset Services Begin
The fifth season of the Anderson Docks-ology ecumenical sunset services began on July 8 and will continue on July 15 with Father David Ruby of Stella Maris Parish.
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Entires Needed for Classic & Wooden Boat Festival
The Door County Maritime Museum’s Classic & Wooden Boat Festival is making its annual call for entries for the various events associated with the festival.
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Gibraltar Talks Series Features Eagle Bluff Lighthouse
Gibraltar Talks 2015 presents “Eagle Bluff Lighthouse & Duclan Family Memories” on July 16 at 7 pm at the Old Town Hall in Fish Creek. In October 1868, the lamp at Eagle Bluff Lighthouse was turned on for the first time, and the beam of light has shone brightly for the past 147 years.
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Vendor Spaces Available for Stuff-o-Rama Flea Market
On July 18, the Stuff-o-Rama flea market will be held on the grounds of Domicile in Sister Bay from 8 am to 3 pm. Come browse vendors showing anything and everything including antiques, vintage clothing and accessories, glassware, jewelry, furniture, baseball and sports cards, household items, craft supplies, and treasures of all variety.
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“All Things Lavender” Festival at Fragrant Isle
Fragrant Isle will host its inaugural “All Things Lavender” Festival on July 24 – 26 on Washington Island. Travel across Lake Michigan and celebrate the start of harvest season and all things lavender.
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I was surprised to find camouflage, the favored print of Guerillas and northern Wisconsinites, absent from Guerilla Yoga, a free class offered in Sturgeon Bay’s Martin Park, last Saturday.
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With two weeks out from the Door County Triathlon, training is coming to an end and focus shifts instead to recovery. If my budget looks good, the first thing I turn to in keeping my legs fresh is massage therapy.
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Turtle Ridge is hosting “Garden Inspirations,” a demonstration event in the newly designed Garden Shop, on July 3. Learn how to combine woodland elements, herbs and edibles into natural arrangements using their birch bark baskets and herb planters.
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The Door County Sail and Power Squadron continues its 2015 Summer Seminar Series on July 11 with “Trailering Your Boat.” Seminars are held on Saturday mornings from 9 to 11 am at SkipperBud’s Quarterdeck Marina in Sturgeon Bay.
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The Door County Master Gardeners Association plans to hold an open house at The Garden Door on July 11, 11 am – 2 pm. This free public garden is located on Hwy.
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The Collins Learning Center at Crossroads at Big Creek will be closed on the 3rd and 4th of July this year, but the trails are always open, so make a patriot pilgrimage in search of red, white and blue birds.
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Meet and Greet with the Raptors
Meet the resident raptors from Open Door Bird Sanctuary at Something Fishy in Egg Harbor on July 3, 2 – 4 pm, during Egg Harbor’s annual 4th of July celebration.
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As tradition has it, the Fourth of July promises to be a fun-filled day in Gills Rock with events planned throughout the day leading up to fireworks at dusk.
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Junction Center Yoga Studio announces weekly Monday morning beach yoga sessions have begun in Egg Harbor at 8 am and 10 am. Start the week off right with yoga at the Egg Harbor beach.
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Sturgeon Bay is World’s Bass Capital
“When an 8.45-pound fish wins big bass — and that fish is a smallmouth — heads turn. That’s exactly what happened at a local tournament on this section of Lake Michigan last year. In that very same two-day tournament, it took 67.13 pounds to win (an average of almost 34 pounds per day). If you […]
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A Sport Built On Determination
Born on the sidewalks of California in the late 1940s by surfers looking for something to do when the waves were flat (according to Skateboarding Magazine), skateboarding has cruised its way into the mainstream sports category alongside basketball, baseball and football. For the first few decades, its popularity ebbed and flowed, largely driven by the […]
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Historic Door County Summer Camps
Happy campers…Door County was full of them in the 1920s. Its forests, fields and bays reverberated with Reveille at dawn and Taps at dusk. From the Mabel Katherine Pearse modern dance camp on Washington Island to the rustic Adventure Island Camp off the shores of Ephraim to Camp Meenahga in Peninsula State Park, Door County […]
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If there was one time when I really got turned onto the mystery and fun of searching for, finding and learning about fossils, it was when I was working for the Kewaunee Highway Department during the summer of 1950. A crew was building a new road somewhere north of Luxemburg and the quarry from which […]
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Mother Nature’s Artist – Algoma’s Kirsten Christianson
When Algoma environmental artist and teacher Kirsten Christianson walks the shore of Lake Michigan, observing the ebb and flow of the water, the crisp color of the sky, the bright leaves of summer trees, she is noting nature’s structure as much as she is appreciating it. When she returns home, she will bring those mental […]