Editing Door County, Wisconsin (section)

==Attractions==
[[File:Winter Road - Shivering Sands, Door Peninsula (32151198956).jpg|thumb|upright=1.35|Road in Shivering Sands wetland complex, January 1]]
Today, most tourists and summer residents come from the metropolitan areas of [[Milwaukee]], [[Chicago]], [[Madison, Wisconsin|Madison]], [[Green Bay, Wisconsin|Green Bay]], and the [[Minneapolis-Saint Paul|Twin Cities]],<ref name="NYTimes20080911">{{cite news |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/greathomesanddestinations/12mark.html |title = The Cape Cod of the Midwest |last1 = Lyttle |first1 = Bethany |date = September 11, 2008 |newspaper = The New York Times |access-date = September 25, 2008 |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171022141355/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/greathomesanddestinations/12mark.html |archive-date = October 22, 2017 }}</ref> although Illinois residents are the dominant group both in Door County and farther south along the eastern edge of Wisconsin.<ref name="ScheweField2012">{{cite book |author1 = Rebecca L. Schewe |author2 = Donald R. Field |author3 = Deborah J. Frosch |author4 = Gregory Clendenning |author5 = Dana Jensen |title = Condos in the Woods: The Growth of Seasonal and Retirement Homes in Northern Wisconsin |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Z737bhspiloC&pg=PA22 |date = May 15, 2012 |publisher = University of Wisconsin Press |isbn = 978-0-299-28533-3 |pages = 22– }}</ref>

===Recreational lands===
[[File:Potawatomi Tower View.jpg|thumb|upright=1.35|View in August from the [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Door County, Wisconsin#Potawatomi State Park Observation Tower|Potawatomi State Park Observation Tower]]. ]]

====Lands open to public use====
Door County is home to six state parks:<ref>[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/broadband-high-speed-internet-government-spending/ Federal lawmakers have spent billions in the wake of the pandemic to get Americans high-speed internet. And they want to spend much more.] by Sarah Ewall-Wice, ''CBS News'' May 21, 2021</ref><ref>[https://doorcountypulse.com/66938/ Article posted Thursday, March 6, 2014 10:36am] by Jim Lundstrom, ''Peninsula Pulse'', March 6, 2014</ref> [[Newport State Park]], [[Peninsula State Park]], [[Potawatomi State Park]], [[Whitefish Dunes State Park]], [[Rock Island State Park (Wisconsin)|Rock Island State Park]], and Grand Traverse Island State Park. There are four State Wildlife and Fishery Areas{{efn|Gardner Swamp Wildlife Area, Mud Lake Wildlife Area, Reibolts Creek Public Access, and Schuyler Creek State Fishery Area}} and also [[Wisconsin State Natural Areas Program|State Natural Areas]] that allow free public access.<ref name="SNA">{{cite web |author=Wisconsin DNR |title=Door |url=https://dnr.wi.gov/topic/Lands/NaturalAreas/county.html#Door |access-date=January 22, 2019 |website=State natural areas by county}}</ref>{{efn|Access to SNAs depends on ownership, but most are free and open to the public. Complex ownership complicates a straightforward listing of the parks, as besides the land trust, the Nature Conservancy [https://www.nature.org/en-us/get-involved/how-to-help/places-we-protect/priority-area-the-door-peninsula/ manages five preserves] in the county.}} Additionally, [[Plum Island (Wisconsin)|Plum Island]] and [[Green Bay National Wildlife Refuge]] are seasonally open for public recreation.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20220223152911/https://www.fws.gov/uploadedFiles/Green%20Bay%20Public%20Use%20Regs.19.508(1).pdf Green Bay National Wildlife Refuge Hunt, Fish & Public Use Regulations 2021-2022], ''USFWS'' (Archived February 23, 2022)</ref>

===Waters===
{{Further|Door Peninsula#Waters}}

==== Lakes and ponds ====
{{For|details about the size and public accessibility of county lakes|List of lakes of Wisconsin#Door County}}

Besides Lake Michigan and Green Bay, there are 26 lakes, ponds, or marshes and 37 rivers, creeks, streams, and springs in the county.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://map.co.door.wi.us/planning/Comp-Plan/Final_20091106/Chapter%204%20-%20Agricultural%20%26%20Natural%20Resources%20_adopted%2010-27-09_.pdf |title = Door County Comprehensive Plan 2030: Chapter 4, Agricultural and Natural Resources; p. 20 of the pdf, Tables 4.15 and 4.16 |author = Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources |date = November 27, 2009 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200113070608/http://map.co.door.wi.us/planning/Comp-Plan/Final_20091106/Chapter%204%20-%20Agricultural%20%26%20Natural%20Resources%20_adopted%2010-27-09_.pdf |access-date = January 22, 2019 |archive-date = January 13, 2020 }}; for the 26th lake, see [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015042514722&view=1up&seq=277 Flora and Vegetation of the Grand Traverse Islands (Lake Michigan), Wisconsin and Michigan] by Emmet J. Judziewicz, ''The Michigan Botanist'', Volume 40, Number 4, October 2001, page 127</ref> The two deepest lakes, [[Mackaysee Lake]] at {{convert|26|ft|m|0}} and Krause Lake at {{convert|24|ft|m|0}} are on Chambers Island.<ref name=Lukes1986before>[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951t002328748&view=1up&seq=142&skin=2021 Before They're Gone] by Roy Lukes, ''Wisconsin Natural Resources'', May–June 1986, Volume 10, Number 3, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, page 8</ref>

===Living plant collections===
{{about|cultivated plants|wild plants and fungi|Flora of Door County, Wisconsin|section=yes}}

Living plant collections include the [[The Ridges Sanctuary#Orchid project|orchid project at The Ridges Sanctuary]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://doorcountypulse.com/orchid-restoration-work-ridges/|title=Orchid Restoration Work at The Ridges|date=January 20, 2017|website=Door County Pulse}}</ref> in Baileys Harbor and [[Sevastopol, Wisconsin#Plant collections|the U.S. Potato Genebank and a public garden]] in Sevastopol.<ref>{{cite news |last1 = Jones |first1 = Gary |title = Door County's Potato Genebank |url = https://doorcountypulse.com/door-countys-potato-genebank/ |access-date = January 22, 2019 |work = Door County Pulse |date = September 16, 2009 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.dcmga.org/uploads/7/8/5/0/78507148/tgd_fact_sheet.pdf The Garden Door Fact Sheet] by the Door County Master Gardeners Association, Accessed December 18, 2019</ref>

===Animals===
====Unique vertebrates====
''[[Eastern chipmunk#T. s. doorsiensis|Tamias striatus doorsiensis]]'', a [[subspecies]] of eastern chipmunk, is only found in Door, [[Kewaunee County, Wisconsin|Kewaunee]], Northeastern [[Brown County, Wisconsin|Brown]], and possibly [[Manitowoc County, Wisconsin|Manitowoc]] counties.<ref name=Lukes73>''Tales of the wild: a year with nature'' by Roy Lukes ([http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43145798 entry on worldcat.org]), Egg Harbor, Wisconsin: Nature-Wise, 2000, p. 73</ref>
In 1999, the Wisconsin Natural Heritage Inventory listed 24 aquatic and 21 terrestrial animals in Door County as "rare."<ref>{{cite web |title = Figure 11 General Distribution of Rare Species and Habitats in Door County, p. 62 of the pdf |publisher = Surface Water Inventory of Door County |author = Door County Soil and Water Conservation Department |url = http://map.co.door.wi.us/swcd/Surface%20Water%20Inventory%20FINAL.pdf |access-date = January 22, 2019 |date = June 27, 1999 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200113073051/http://map.co.door.wi.us/swcd/Surface%20Water%20Inventory%20FINAL.pdf |archive-date = January 13, 2020 }}</ref>

====Birds====
{{as of|2018}}, 166 [[List of birds of Wisconsin|species of birds]] have been confirmed to live in Door County, excluding birds seen which lack the habitat to nest and must only be passing through.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://ebird.org/atlaswi/news/season-4-preliminary-results-and-stats |title = Season 4 Preliminary Results and Stats |author = Nick Anich |website = UWGB Cofrin Center for Biodiversity |access-date = January 22, 2019 |date = October 2, 2018 }} and {{cite web |title=Wisconsin Breeding Bird Atlas |website=Cornell Lab of Ornithology |url=https://ebird.org/atlaswi/map/scatan?neg=true&amp;env.minX=-95.64427734374999&amp;env.minY=41.907492675697185&amp;env.maxX=-81.62572265624999&amp;env.maxY=46.752190822777436&amp;zh=true&amp;gp=false&amp;ev=Z&amp;mr=1-12&amp;bmo=1&amp;emo=12&amp;yr=EBIRD_ATL_WI_2015 |access-date=January 22, 2019}}</ref>

====Other invertebrates====
[[Kangaroo Lake State Natural Area]] has the largest breeding population of the endangered [[Hine's Emerald Dragonfly]] in the world.<ref>{{cite web |title = Hines Dragonfly |publisher = Hinesdragonfly.org |url = http://www.hinesdragonfly.org/ |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070928222551/http://www.hinesdragonfly.org/ |access-date = August 3, 2007 |archive-date = September 28, 2007 }}</ref>

The [[Trimerotropis huroniana|Lake Huron locust]] lives on dunes in the county and is not found anywhere else in the state.<ref>{{cite magazine |url = https://bioone.org/journals/Journal-of-Orthoptera-Research/volume-14/issue-1/1082-6467%282005%2914%5B45:FATDOT%5D2.0.CO;2/Factors-affecting-the-distribution-of-the-threatened-Lake-Huron-locust/10.1665/1082-6467%282005%2914%5B45:FATDOT%5D2.0.CO;2.pdf  |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200201021018/https://bioone.org/journals/Journal-of-Orthoptera-Research/volume-14/issue-1/1082-6467%282005%2914%5B45:FATDOT%5D2.0.CO;2/Factors-affecting-the-distribution-of-the-threatened-Lake-Huron-locust/10.1665/1082-6467%282005%2914%5B45:FATDOT%5D2.0.CO;2.pdf |archive-date = February 1, 2020 |title =  Factors affecting the distribution of the threatened Lake Huron locust (Orthoptera: Acrididae)] |last1 = Scholtens |first1 = Brian G. |last2 = Reznik| first2 = Joseph |last3 = Holland |first3 = Janet |magazine = Journal of Orthoptera Research |year = 2005 |volume = 14 |issue = 1 |page = 47 |doi = 10.1665/1082-6467(2005)14[45:FATDOT]2.0.CO;2 }}</ref>

===Culture===
==== Lighthouses and historical sites ====
{{Further|National Register of Historic Places listings in Door County, Wisconsin}}

Including both Lake Michigan and Green Bay shorelines, there are 50 total lights and lighthouses, besides lighted buoys.<ref>[https://navcen.uscg.gov/pdf/lightLists/LightList_V7_2022.pdf Light List, Volume VII: Great Lakes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220131004714/https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/pdf/lightlists/LightList_V7_2022.pdf |date=January 31, 2022 }}, United States Coast Guard, 33 of the lights are listed from pages 187–191 (pages 243–247 of the pdf); 17 of them are listed from pages 195–198 (pages 251–254 of the pdf), 2022</ref> Out of these, there are 10 historically significant lighthouse structures and [[Leading lights|sets of lights]] still serving as navigational lights. Most of them were built during the 19th century and are listed in the [[National Register of Historic Places]]: [[Baileys Harbor Range Lights]], [[Cana Island Light]]house,<ref>[https://wisconsinlife.org/story/keeper-of-the-light-a-modern-lighthouse-keeper/ Keeper Of The Light: A Modern Lighthouse Keeper] by Patty Murray, September 25, 2017 ''Wisconsin Originals'', PBS</ref> [[Chambers Island Light]]house, [[Eagle Bluff Light]]house, [[Pilot Island Light]]house, [[Plum Island Range Lights]],<ref>[https://wisconsinlife.org/story/women-learn-life-skills-while-preserving-maritime-landmarks Women Learn Life Skills While Preserving Maritime Landmarks] by Joel Waldinger, October 15, 2015, ''Wisconsin Life'', PBS</ref> [[Pottawatomie Light]]house, and [[Sturgeon Bay Canal Light]]house. Other functioning historic lighthouses in the county include the [[Sherwood Point Light]]house and the [[Sturgeon Bay Canal North Pierhead Light]].<ref name=lights>[http://www.dcmm.org/cana-island-lighthouse/door-county-lighthouses/ More Door County Lighthouses] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180507152544/http://www.dcmm.org/cana-island-lighthouse/door-county-lighthouses/ |date=May 7, 2018}}. Door County Maritime Museum and [https://arcg.is/1KezLv Wisconsin Coastal Lighthouses Tour] electronic map, Wisconsin Coastal Management Program</ref> The Boyer Bluff Light is mounted on an 80-foot [[skeletal tower]].<ref name=Boyer>[https://uslhs.org/light_lists/lighthouse_list.php?id=424 Boyer Bluff (Wisconsin)], ''United States Lighthouse Society''</ref> In addition, the [[Baileys Harbor Light]] is a non-functioning 19th century lighthouse.<ref name=lights/>

Thirteen historical sites are marked in the state maritime trail for the area<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwZBcg3pi7c Maritime Trail] video, July 15, 2011, ''Explore the Door'', Door County Visitor Bureau and also see the [http://www.wisconsinshipwrecks.org/Attraction/UpprLakeMichigan?SearchString=Maritime+Trail&county=Door&nearestCity= Maritime trail markers] for Door County listed by the Maritime Preservation Program of the [[Wisconsin Historical Society]]</ref> in addition to nine roadside [[Commemorative plaque#United States|historical markers]].<ref>[https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/pdfs/hp/HPR-Marker-List%206-19-2019.pdf Official List of Wisconsin's State Historic Markers] by the Wisconsin Historical Society, June 2019, and [https://arcg.is/1qTSmK Wisconsin Historical Marker], electronic map, Wisconsin Historical Society</ref> In Sturgeon Bay, the tugboat ''[[List of Great Lakes museum and historic ships#Tug John Purves (Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin)|John Purves]]'' is operated as a museum ship. Including lighthouses, the county has [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Door County, Wisconsin|72 properties and districts]] listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There are 214 known confirmed and unconfirmed shipwrecks listed for the county,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wisconsinshipwrecks.org/Vessel/UpprLakeMichigan?SearchString=&county=Door&nearestCity=|title=Shipwrecks - Upper Lake Michigan - WI Shipwrecks|website=www.wisconsinshipwrecks.org}}</ref> including the [[SS Australasia|SS ''Australasia'']], ''[[Christina Nilsson (shipwreck)|Christina Nilsson]]'', ''[[Fleetwing (shipwreck)|Fleetwing]]'', [[SS Frank O'Connor|SS ''Frank O'Connor'']], ''[[Grape Shot (shipwreck)|Grape Shot]]'', ''[[Green Bay (shipwreck)|Green Bay]]'', ''[[Hanover (schooner)|Hanover]]'', ''[[Iris (1866 ship)|Iris]]'', [[SS Joys|SS ''Joys'']], [[SS Lakeland|SS ''Lakeland'']], ''[[Meridian (shipwreck)|Meridian]]'', ''[[Ocean Wave (shipwreck)|Ocean Wave]]'', and ''[[Success (shipwreck)|Success]]''. The [[SS Louisiana|SS ''Louisiana'']] sank during the [[Great Lakes Storm of 1913]].<ref>[https://www.wuwm.com/post/photos-deadly-great-lakes-hurricane-1913 Photos: The Deadly Great Lakes 'Hurricane' of 1913] by Stephanie Lecci & Mitch Teich, November 7, 2013, ''WUWM 89.7 Milwaukee's NPR''</ref> Some shipwrecks are used for [[wreck diving]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200113070558/http://www.deepsixscuba.com/docs/DoorCountyShoreDives.pdf Guide to Door County Shore Dives] by Chuck Larsen and [https://www.twincities.com/2012/07/07/wisconsins-door-county-full-of-treasures-for-scuba-divers/ Wisconsin's Door County Full of Treasures for Scuba Divers] by Brian E. Clark, July 7, 2012, updated November 9, 2015, ''Twin Cities Pioneer Press''</ref>

====Scandinavian heritage====
[[File:Washington Island Stavkirke chancel.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Chancel]] and [[altarpiece]] inside the stave church on Washington Island]]

Scandinavian heritage-related attractions include [[The Clearing Folk School]], two [[stave church]]es,<ref>The [[Björklunden]] stave church is called Boynton Chapel and it is just south of Baileys Harbor. The [[Washington Island Stavkirke]] is part of and adjacent to Trinity Lutheran Church on Washington Island.</ref> structures in Rock Island State Park furnished with [[Runes|rune]]-inscribed furniture,<ref>[http://www.portalwisconsin.org/archives/rock_island.cfm Whisked Away to Rock Island] by Benson Gardner, ''Portal Wisconsin'', 2010; the page links to a panoramic tour of the boathouse</ref> and [[Al Johnson's Swedish Restaurant]], which features goats on its grassy roof. In Ephraim, the [[Ephraim Village Hall|Village Hall]], the [[Ephraim Moravian Church|Moravian]] and [[Bethany Lutheran Church, Ephraim|Lutheran]] churches, and the [[Peter Peterson House]] are listed in the National Register of Historic Places, as is the [[L. A. Larson & Co. Store]] building in Sturgeon Bay. Although [[fish boil]]s have been attributed to Scandinavian tradition,<ref>[https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/08/18/432683662/in-the-upper-midwest-summertime-means-fish-boils In The Upper Midwest, Summertime Means Fish Boils] by Amanda Vinicky, ''The Salt'', section on ''npr.org'', August 18, 2015; also see Joy Marquardt. "[https://www.wausaudailyherald.com/story/travel/2016/08/31/fish-boils-serve-up-food-fun/89647818/ Fish boils serve up food, fun]". ''Wausau Daily Herald'', August 31, 2016.</ref> several ethnicities present on the peninsula have traditions of boiling fish. The method common in the county is similar to that of Native Americans.<ref>[https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/MCR/article/download/18000/19275 Sagamité and Booya: French Influence in Defining Great Lakes Culinary Heritage] by Janet C. Gilmore in ''Material History Review 60'' (Fall 2004) and [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000107432035&view=1up&seq=117 "Pretty Hungry For Fish": Fish Foodways Among Commercial Fishing People of the Western Shore of Lake Michigan's Green Bay] by Janet C. Gilmore, in ''Midwestern folklore. v.28–29'' 2002–2003, p. 46 (page 158 of the pdf)</ref>{{efn|For a description of Belgian [[acculturation]] towards Native Americans, see [https://rc.library.uta.edu/uta-ir/bitstream/handle/10106/11844/Tinkler_uta_2502M_12187.pdf The Walloon Immigrants Of Northeast Wisconsin An Examination Of Ethnic Retention] by Jacqueline Tinkler, MA Thesis, [[University of Texas at Arlington|UT-Arlington]], May 2013, pp. 26–27 (pp. 33–34 of the pdf)}}

====Industry====
In Sturgeon Bay, [[industrial tourism]] includes tours of the [[Bay Shipbuilding Company]],<ref>[https://wisconsinlife.org/story/wisconsin-life-701-headfirst/ Wisconsin Life # 701: Headfirst], October 3, 2019, hosted by [[Angela Fitzgerald]], ''PBS''</ref> [[List of yachts built by Palmer Johnson|CenterPointe Yacht Services]]<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-LnJZTPbJQ Duct Tape Guys Tour Palmer Johnson Yacht Company], ''Ultimate Originals'' television show pilot</ref><ref>[https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/local/door-co/entertainment/2019/04/25/public-offered-rare-opportunity-tour-sturgeon-bay-shipyards/3578775002/ Public offered rare opportunity to tour Sturgeon Bay shipyards], Staff Report, April 25, 2019, ''Door County Advocate''</ref> and other manufacturers.<ref>[https://doorcountypulse.com/industrial-park-opens-for-manufacturing-days/ Industrial Park Opens for Manufacturing Days] by Jim Lundstrom, ''Peninsula Pulse'', October 13, 2017</ref>

====Radio stations====
{{Door County Radio|state=expanded}}