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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The best of Door County’s festivals start with fun at heart. Fall Fest began as an end-of-season party for the locals. Fish Creek Winter Games earned its crowd not from tourist trappings, but from local oddities like the cherry pit spit and bike toss. And the county’s most popular parades – on New Year’s Day […]
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What a delightfully peaceful atmosphere the Mourning Doves provided for us while we were growing up in the small city of Kewaunee, Wisconsin. They’d perch on the power lines high above our backyard and sing non-stop, a gentle “oh WHOoo who who.” It was when I was cutting the large lawn at my mother’s cousin […]
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The burly hum of the tires on dry pavement is akin to a semi-truck barreling down an empty highway on an otherwise quiet night. The sound is incessant, relentless and transformative. The consuming roar envelops the rider. In turn, the rider becomes emboldened atop the two-wheeled behemoth and once pavement is left behind, the rider […]
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Frequently on winter hikes at Crossroads at Big Creek, many mammals are spotted, including porcupines, deer, squirrels, etc. On Nov. 15 at 2 pm the family program is “Mammals in Winter.
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Sharpen your field skills for the Christmas Bird Count at The Ridges Optics Workshop, Nov. 19 at 1 pm. This is the third in a series of Christmas Bird Count classes and the workshop that every birder wishes they’d taken.
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Tree Lighting, Parade and Santa
The Sturgeon Bay Visitor Center will host its annual Christmas by the Bay event Nov. 21 – 23. The weekend kicks off on Nov. 21 at 7 pm with a tree lighting ceremony at the clock tower on Third Avenue, complete with live music from Josh Gregory, Hervy Hodges and Nick Hoover from 6 to 8 pm.
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Local historian George Evenson will lead a discussion on “The Role of Agriculture in Door County” as The Ridges Fireside Series continues on Nov. 13 at 6 pm.
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Become a Ski/Snowshoe Volunteer
The Master Gardeners seminar at Crossroads at Big Creek on Nov. 8 is titled “What’s Hardy? A “Perennial” Question.” The speaker, Nancy Nedveck, is the co-owner of The Flower Factory in Stoughton, Wisconsin.
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It’s official! Peninsula State Park’s Nature Center meadow is a certified Monarch Waystation. This habitat meets the criteria put forth by Monarch Watch (monarchwatch.
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To learn more about the relationships between birds, caterpillars and their host plants, attend a screening of Doug Tallamy’s lecture “The Value of Having Native Plants in Our Yards” at Crossroads at Big Creek.
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Fall Decorating Workshop at The Ridges
If the season’s crisp air and colorful foliage have you in the mood to bring fall into your home, The Ridges Sanctuary’s Fall Decorating Workshop on Nov.
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Almost Time for Christmas by the Bay
The Sturgeon Bay Visitor Center will host its annual Christmas by the Bay event Nov. 21 – 23. The weekend kicks off on Nov. 21 at 7 pm with a tree lighting ceremony at the clock tower on Third Avenue, complete with live music from Josh Gregory, Hervy Hodges and Nick Hoover from 6 to 8 pm.
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After the Halloween costumes and face paint have been put away for another year and the trick-or-treat bags have been emptied, the attention of many turns to the next holiday – Thanksgiving.
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Crossroads at Big Creek Environmental Preserve may expand all the way to the Bay of Sturgeon Bay by the end of the year…if they can raise the money to purchase the nine-acre Big Creek Cove Property just across Utah Street from its current holdings.
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After being honored as the Great Lakes Featured Light 2014, Eagle Bluff Lighthouse passed the mantle to Waugoshance Lighthouse at the annual Lighthouse Festival held October 10 – 12 in Alpena, Michigan.
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Fish Creek’s annual hometown celebration, Jack O’ Lantern Days, will fill the community with family-friendly activities and fall fun Oct. 24 – 25. Several past activities will be back while a couple new activities have been added to make this a fun and festive weekend.
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Friday, Oct. 17 9am-5pm: Classic auto show, west side of Mill Road 10am-5pm: Arts & crafts show, Mill Road 10am-5pm: Food & drinks, various places in village 1-3:30pm: Scotty Meyer at Husby’s 4-7pm: Modern Day Drifters at Husby’s 5-8 pm: Fish boil, fire station on Mill Road 6 pm: WIFEE and HUZzBAND at Grasse’s Grill […]
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Get Ready for Christmas Bird Count
October programs at The Ridges Sanctuary can give beginning and seasoned birders the skills to enjoy bird watching as well as everything needed to participate in events like the National Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count.
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On Oct. 18, Crossroads at Big Creek will celebrate the Wisconsin Science Festival with Spectrum Day. The Rainbow Room (also known as the Entry Level of the Collins Learning Center) will have stations where pre-school, kindergarten and primary-aged students can celebrate Spectrum Day.
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It is one of the mostly highly anticipated weekends in Door County after the summer months, and their accompanying pleasant weather, pass by – Sister Bay’s Fall Festival.