The Door Peninsula Wisconsin

Considered wisconsin s most complete park peninsula state park offers over 460 campsites three group camps a summer theater an 18 hole golf course sand beach bike trails a lighthouse and eight miles of door county shoreline.

The door peninsula wisconsin.

The county was created in 1851 and organized in 1861. The door peninsula is a peninsula in eastern wisconsin separating the southern part of the green bay from lake michigan. The dangerous passage known as death s door contains shipwrecksand was known to native americans and early french explorers. Its rocky cliffs sandy beaches marshy bays fertile wetlands and conifer forests provide habitat for plants and animals some of which are found nowhere else in the world.

Lying between green bay and lake michigan door peninsula is about 80 miles 130 km long and 25 miles 40 km wide at its base and tapering northeastward. Door peninsula area of land eastern wisconsin u s. Door county is a popular upper midwestvacation destination. It is named after the straitbetween the door peninsulaand washington island.

It is crossed southeast northwest by a waterway at sturgeon bay. It is the western portion of the niagara escarpment. The rollicking waves that skip towards peninsula s sky high bluffs are part of the niagara escarpment.