The Door Peninsula Wisconsin

It is crossed southeast northwest by a waterway at sturgeon bay.

The door peninsula wisconsin.

It is the western portion of the niagara escarpment. The county was created in 1851 and organized in 1861. 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. 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.

A slender limestone peninsula that juts out into lake michigan the door peninsula is well known in wisconsin and beyond for its natural beauty and rich cultural heritage. The dangerous passage known as death s door contains shipwrecksand was known to native americans and early french explorers. The rollicking waves that skip towards peninsula s sky high bluffs are part of the niagara escarpment. The peninsula includes northern brown and kewaunee counties and all of door county.

Door county is a popular upper midwestvacation destination. The door peninsula is a peninsula in eastern wisconsin separating the southern part of the green bay from lake michigan. Door peninsula area of land eastern wisconsin u s.