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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Eagle Bluff Lighthouse to Open for Season
In 1868, Eagle Bluff Lighthouse cast its beam over the Green Bay for the first time. Guiding vessels through the water’s treacherous shoals, the lighthouse and its keepers provided safe passage for people and product.
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Celebrate “Old Fashioned Fun” in Ellison Bay
The 49th Olde Ellison Bay Days Festival will feature “Old Fashioned Fun” this year. Three community groups will team up again this year to uncork the 2015 Northern Door festival season, June 25 – 28, in Ellison Bay.
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Meet the Makers at von Stiehl Winery in Algoma on June 20, 11 am – 6 pm. This is a wine and beer festival of a different flavor. The one-day festival offers test batches and unique blends newly released by von Stiehl’s wine and beer making teams.
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Container Gardening: A Lot of Fun In A Small Pot
Wendy Woldt, treasurer of the Door County Master Gardener Association and a frequent speaker on container gardening, says it’s all about trends. “For the most part,” she says, “if a plant will grow in a garden, it will grow in a container.”
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A Guide to Smartphone Photography
The prevalence of smartphone technology has rapidly revolutionized the functionality of American culture. Telecommunication almost seems secondary to the international connectivity we have through social media and the fun we experience in gaming and entertainment apps.
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Coast Guard Utility Boat Lands at DCMM
The last of the United States Coast Guard Utility Boat Large (UTB) has been placed on permanent display in front of the Door County Maritime Museum in Sturgeon Bay.
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Bird and Photo Op Hikes at The Ridges
Join fellow birding enthusiasts for a Discovery Bird Hike into the woods, fields and waters around Baileys Harbor. Hikes, organized by The Ridges Sanctuary, begin at 6:30 am on May 9, 16 and 30.
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Mother’s Day Wildflower Hike at Crossroads
Celebrate Mother’s Day at Crossroads at Big Creek on May 10 with a Wildflower Hike. Join the naturalist in a one-hour hike to look for spring wildflowers.
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Steve Fischer, Last of a Varnishing Breed of Boat Craftsmen
Steve Fischer’s business ad reads “Fischer & Daughters Boat Works…Last of a varnishing breed.” But you won’t see Fischer’s daughters, Alex, 24, and Lucy, 19, working alongside him as he sands and varnishes wooden boats for Door County customers. The addition of daughters to his business name was wishful thinking on Fischer’s part. “I pretty […]
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We in the north live in a monochromatic world most of the winter. Black, white and gray are the dominant colors, with leafless trees and snow-covered landscapes. Even many of the birds are black and white, such as the Chickadees, Juncos, Nuthatches and most Woodpeckers. Our only really colorful birds here all year are the […]
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PHOTOS: Len Villano’s Eyes on the Door County Sky
RED SKIES The colors we see in the sky are due to the rays of sunlight being split into colors of the spectrum as they pass through the atmosphere and ricochet off the water vapor and particles in the atmosphere. A red sky suggests an atmosphere loaded with dust and moisture particles. We see the […]
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In Volume VI of Wisconsin Beekeeping, dated February 1929, Sturgeon Bay resident Herman Riechard writes, “I think that beekeeping is very good for the orchard man; as the bees help pollinize the cherry and apple bloom. I had fifteen hives of bees in 1927 and my orchard and those of my near neighbors yielded more […]
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A Run in the Park: Door County Half Marathon
Just about 2,500 runners, 150 volunteers, some 4,000 – 6,000 spectators, park employees, and curiousity seekers will be entering Peninsula State Park.
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myTEAM TRIUMPH Helps Disabled Athlete Join the Race
Like many of those running in this weekend’s Door County Half Marathon and Nicolet Bay 5k in Peninsula State Park, Kayla Kudick signed up for the race “to try something new.
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Sevastopol Celebrates Arbor Day
Dick and Joan Baudhuin were guests of honor during the annual Arbor Day Celebration at Sevastopol Elementary School on Friday, April 24. Sevastopol 4th graders planted a tree in honor of the Baudhuins during the celebration.
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All Ages Invited to Frog Walk at The Ridges
It’s often said that in the spring a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of love – well, so do those of awakening lovesick amphibians. Early spring is mating season for frogs and toads, and the wetlands fill with peeping, trilling and quacking as the males seek out their sweethearts.
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“Extremophiles” to be Discussed at Crossroads
So how diverse is life on Earth? The Door Peninsula Astronomical Society (DPAS) lecture at Crossroads at Big Creek on May 5 at 7 pm will discuss “Extremophiles,” organisms that live on Earth in conditions so extreme that is hard to fathom how they survive.
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Take to the Sky During Young Eagles Rally
Area youngsters ages 8-17 will have a chance to take to the skies on May 16, as Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Warbirds Squadron hosts a Young Eagles Rally at the Ephraim-Gibraltar Airport.
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A very small wildflower genus with gigantic popularity will soon be carpeting many of the deciduous woods of eastern Wisconsin. Its genus and best common name are the same, Hepatica.
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Watch Out for Woodcocks and Mushrooms at The Ridges
Two sure signs of spring round out the April program schedule at The Ridges – woodcocks and mushrooms. Join a Ridges naturalist for a Woodcock Watch on April 24 at 7 pm to learn about the rotund little shorebird known as the American Woodcock and observe its distinctive courtship sky dance.