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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Nature of Door County Byway Tour on July 20
The Door County Coastal Byway is a Wisconsin Scenic Byway that stretches over 66 miles as it loops through the beautiful Door Peninsula. Beginning just north of Sturgeon Bay, the Byway offers abundant opportunity for bird watching, post-card quality scenery, fascinating cultural history and accessible natural geologic features.
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Domicile Hosts Stuff-o-Rama Flea Market
The Stuff-o-Rama Flea Market will be held on July 20 at Domicile from 8 am – 3 pm. Vendors will sell antiques, glassware, jewelry, furniture, baseball cards, household items, junior clothing, toys, books, crafts and more.
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Family Programs at Crossroads, Rain or Shine
Family programs have been very popular this summer at Crossroads at Big Creek. Programs are offered rain or shine at the Collins Learning Center. On July 15, search the meadows for the birds and wildflowers of summer, and on July 16, explore how animals move using feet, fins, and feathers in Animal Acrobatics.
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Night Sky Highlighted During Universe in the Park
Graduate students from the University of Wisconsin – Madison will be visiting several state parks in Door County this summer and early fall to present Universe in the Park sessions, an outreach program of the school’s Astronomy Department.
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Curious to have a rest stop on Highway 57 between Jacksonport and Baileys Harbor – a stretch of road where towns featuring restaurants and public parks with picnic tables, benches, bar stools, food, grills, and impressive water views are mere miles apart.
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Plum Island to Open to the Public
It may be next summer or the one after that, but someday Plum Island will be open for visitors. “We recently completed our comprehensive conservation plan for the island which finalized the process we had to go through to open the refuge to public use,” said Sadie O’Dell, biologist for the U.
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Paul Burton Leads Dragonfly Workshop at The Ridges
Learn more about the species that make their home in The Ridges Sanctuary in Baileys Harbor on July 12, 9 – 11:30 am when Paul Burton conducts a half-day workshop, Dragonflies in the Field.
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Call for Entries for DCMM Classic & Wooden Boat Festival
The Door County Maritime Museum Classic & Wooden Boat Festival is making its annual call for entries. The festival is scheduled for Aug. 3 & 4 and features a remarkable assortment of vessels with judge’s awards for power, sail and self-powered boats.
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Tall Ships to Visit Sturgeon Bay
The Baylake Bank Tall Ship Festival® will return to Green Bay, Aug. 16 – 18. Baylake Bank requested arrangements for some of the Tall Ships® to navigate into the Sturgeon Bay canal on Aug.
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Summer Family Programs at Crossroads
Crossroads offers summer family programs Monday through Thursday at 1:30 pm. On July 8, learn about Door County’s amazing geology by exploring the Niagara Escarpment display in the learning center.
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The Clear Bottom Kayaking Experience
On any given summer’s day in Door County, someone is enjoying a silent sport, and with endless miles of shoreline, inland lakes and rivers, Door County is a fitting home for kayakers. Even without searching for them, kayaks are everywhere – stores, brochures, beachfronts, atop cars, leaning against garages, etc. There is only one place […]
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Time to Invent Your Own Constellation Myths
As early man attempted to understand the natural world around him, he looked up at the vast sky and wondered… The sky was fraught with so much meaning that eventually it became the “heavens,” home of various deities. The night sky especially offered endless mystery and possibilities to our ancestors. They saw celestial occurrences as […]
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The Dazzling World of Dragonflies
It was in 1937, as a fourth-grader in the Kewaunee Public School, that we began studying more about our great state of Wisconsin. I was happy to learn about our state bird, the American Robin; our state tree, the Sugar Maple; and our state wildflower, the Common Blue Violet. The thought of choosing a state […]
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They may not be as celebrated, but seagulls are as Door County as the cherry. They soar over our fields, nest on our shores and steal our French fries. They inspire our artists, embellish Door County t-shirts and squawk when we get too close. Maybe it’s because of those lost fries, or because of the […]
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Olde Ellison Bay Days Celebrates “Feed the Fish”
A Door County tradition continues as Ellison Bay hosts their 47th annual Olde Ellison Bay Days, with a touch of Hollywood class. The 2013 festival theme is “Feed the Fish,” in honor of the film well-known to Door County residents featuring Tony Shalhoub, star of the popular Monk TV series.
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Kayaking Around the Waters of Rock Island
For years I have dreamed of paddling a sea kayak around Rock Island, a state park located two ferryboat rides off the northern tip of Wisconsin’s Door Peninsula.
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Celebrate Independence Day throughout Door County.
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Pub Crawl Added to Baileys Harbor Fourth of July Celebration
The Baileys Harbor Pub Crawl is a new feature of this year’s Fourth of July celebration in Baileys Harbor. The trolley will pick people up from the Town Marina starting at 1:30 pm (last pickup leaves at 4 pm).
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Fish Creek Summer Festival Features Venetian Boat Parade
The picturesque waterfront setting of Clark Park is once again the stage for this year’s Fish Creek Summer Festival and Fireworks on July 6. The fun begins at noon with tasty treats and cool drinks as well as fun summer tunes by the live DJ.
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Join FORI for A Day on Rock Island
On July 6, the Friends of Rock Island (FORI) invite the public to take a ride on the Washington Island ferry, motor to Jackson Harbor and take the Karfi to enjoy a day on Rock Island State Park.