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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Peninsula State Park naturalist Courtney Blumberg and Nature Center volunteer Caitlin pose with Smokey Bear (a.k.a. Scotty Weborg, recipient of a National Smokey Bear Award).
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Beer Fest Returns to Baileys Harbor June 15
After drawing 1,100 people to the grounds of the Baileys Harbor Town Hall in 2012, Beer Fest returns June 15, offering tastings of more than 140 of the world’s best craft beers, locally sourced food and incredible live music.
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Bay Shore Outfitters Offers SUP Fitness Classes
Bay Shore Outfitters will offer standup paddleboard (SUP) fitness classes and group paddles every weekend this summer. SUP fitness classes will be held the following days from 8 – 9:30 am: June 15, 16, 22 & 23; July 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21, 27 & 28; Aug.
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Door County Lighthouse Festival Weekend Celebrated throughout County
The 20th Annual Door County Lighthouse Festival is scheduled for June 7 – 9 throughout the peninsula. The weekend is filled with special land-based tours, boat excursions and a Keeper’s Kin event featuring a performance by American Folklore Theatre.
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Kayakers Attempt Death’s Door Crossing at Washington Island Canoe and Kayak Event
Sea kayakers will make history on June 16, when Washington Island Canoe and Kayak Event, gathers a flotilla of local and international paddlers to kayak Death’s Door.
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Ephraim Yacht Club Sailing Lesson Scholarships Available
The Ephraim Yacht Club (EYC) still has a few sailing lesson scholarships available for 2013.The EYC offers scholarships to junior sailing students who are year-round residents of Door County.
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Newport Wilderness Society Awarded Grant
Newport Wilderness Society is a recipient of a Friends of Wisconsin State Parks 2013 Affinity Naturalist Grant Award. The 2013 Affinity Card Naturalist Grant is a matching grant.
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Tickle and tantalize your taste buds at Sip & Savor, Sister Bay’s newest event on the waterfront, June 8! Try your hands at kayaking or stand up paddleboarding at Paddlefest from 11 am – 4 pm, sponsored by Bay Shore Outfitters.
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Filmmaker Chris Opper Introduces North Ephraim Movie Theater
Chris Opper didn’t know what to do after high school. “I took a few years off before I went to college and then took a TV course – I thought it would be a slack off class, an easy A, but I got really into it.”
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A Celebration of Side Pork Benefits Nonprofits
Two law enforcement officers were sitting around a campfire one night several years back, trying to come up with ideas to raise money for nonprofits they both serve on, when they hit on what has turned out to be a winning idea – a festival of side pork.
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Eagle Bluff Lighthouse Celebrates 50 Years of Tours
In 1868 the Eagle Bluff Lighthouse cast its beam over the Green Bay for the first time. Guiding vessels through the waters’ treacherous shoals, the lighthouse and its keepers provided safe passage for the next 58 years.
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Door County Sail & Power Squadron to Provide Free Vessel Safety Checks
The Door County Sail & Power Squadron is providing free vessel safety checks (VSC) to ensure boaters their vessels are in good working order. The squadron’s vessel safety examiners are trained and United States Coast Guard certified.
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Crossroads Hosts Monarch Weekend
Crossroads at Big Creek will host Monarch Weekend on June 8 and 9. Monarchs migrate, flying south to Mexico for the winter. In the spring, monarchs arrive in Door County.
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Niagara Escarpment Ledge Tour held at Bayshore Blufflands Preserve
The Lakeshore Natural Resource Partnership (LNRP) will hold a ledge tour of the Niagara Escarpment and wetland complex at Bayshore Blufflands Preserve.
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DNR Biologists Stock 600-gallon Tank at Pen Park
Fish filleted and breaded might be a familiar sight, but how about seeing perch, bass and other native species in a more natural habitat? On June 1 and 2, visitors to Peninsula State Park can see a 600-gallon tank, stocked by DNR fisheries biologists, with these species.
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Registration is Open for The Ridges Summer Camps
The Ridges Sanctuary is an ideal location for a child’s outdoor learning. On the grounds of one of Door County’s most unique wild places, children can search for dragonfly larvae in a sedge meadow, examine animal tracks along the beach, and learn about the appetites of insect-eating pitcher plants and sundews.
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Briggsville Gardens to Offer Garden Tours
Since 1990, Tammy and Richard Briggs’s love of horticulture has transformed gardens all over Door County. Now, they have created their own unique, privately owned gardens that will be available for self-guided and guided tours.
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Washington Island Canoe & Kayak Event Scheduled for June 14 – 16
Racers, paddlers, beginners, experts, spectators, volunteers and sponsors are invited to the Washington Island Canoe & Kayak Event, scheduled for June 14 – 16.
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Docent-led Hikes at The Clearing
The Clearing Folk School will again offer free, docent-led hikes covering the history, folklore and landscape of the school and its 128-acre property.
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Crossroads’ Public Hikes to Resume after Festival of Nature
Crossroads at Big Creek is hoping for warm and sunny weather because the Door County Festival of Nature will be celebrated through the cooperative efforts of The Ridges Sanctuary, The Nature Conservancy, The Door County Land Trust, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, and Crossroads at Big Creek.