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The Best of the Best at Door County, Wisconsin

For Door County tips, like best season to visit, best beach, the best of the best, read on.

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Having visited the Door County of Wisconsin three times, today’s topics delves into the best of bests. Three hours north of Chicago, Door County is in the northern peninsula past Green Bay surrounded by lake Michigan. Its series of towns offer unique gifts, all of which I will cover today.

Best Town

I love them all, whether the streets of Egg Harbor, the bridges of Sturgeon Bay, the northerly lights from Gills Rocks, or the cliff of Fish Creek. But my favorite town to walk is Sister Bay, facing west, ideal for sunset. What makes Sister Bay unique is its ambience, the gift shops, ice cream parlors, café, the Al Johnson’s grass seeded roofs with goats. Other restaurant highlights are Wild Tomato and Boathouse on the Bay for dinner. Both offer outdoor seating, Boathouse also offering shutters that open if seated inside the restaurant. For ice cream and coffee visit Analog ice cream and coffee. Sister Bay has an energy unlike any other.

Best Beach

Hands down, the most unique and removed Door County beach experience award goes to the School House beach at the Washington Island. Located a fifteen-minute ferry ride away, the beach is covered by smooth ivory pebbles, sparing you the annoyance of dry sand but abundant with turquoise green waters. Though popular, the beach will be far less crowded owing to its location up north. The beach and ferry to and from the island fits neatly in two to three hours.

Best Park

For most unique experience, visit the Cave Point County Park. It boasts stacked pebbly shores, deep cliff, howling waves, and the prize, the cave from where tourists dive into Lake Michigan.

Best Season to visit

Fall colors bring the entire peninsula to life, making it my pick for best season. It is not necessarily less crowded than summer.

Best Place to Stay

The favorite place I stayed at was the condo 1202 at Little Sweden. It had two bedrooms with two queen size beds, a double futon, and a king master, ideal for a party of 7, overlooking an emerald pond. Its located between Fish Creek and the Egg Harbor.

There. Those are my list of Door County Bests. It’s barnlike shops selling fresh cheese, fruit, and abundant wineries will keep you coming back. If you like this, subscribe. Next time, we explore Colorado.

By Mars D. Gill

From an early age I wanted to make connections with people from across the globe. Allowing emotions to escape the deep recesses of one’s mind, and be spilled into a sheet of paper for the world to read lays an opportunity for reader and writer to combine in a nameless bond, one of oneness, and intrigue. It bares a private part of the writer for all to see. It is daunting and exciting. If a written word can dissipate the worry from another heart, if a written word can bring to a face a smile or a tear, then that connection is complete, and a word shatters the physical distance and brings souls together in harmony and joy. This is my dream, only a dream at the moment.

When I was 15 years old, we got a new English teacher. She spoke so beautifully and clearly and made me want to be a better person. Despite my age-old struggle with language(s), I was fascinated by the world of writing. My teacher inspired me to be a constant memory keeper. I feel at some level she taught me how to think.

Now years later, I am blessed with a career and a family that keeps me busy. However it is that 15-year-old in me that is knocking on my heart and via this little personal web site, urging for outlet for my life-long aspirations of writing and as well as begging for validation of all the dreams, old and new that just do not go away. So, here I am on word press with my own website to see where my dreams take me.

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