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Plants shape the character of Door County. From white cedars clinging to the Niagara Escarpment and sugar maples shading forest trails to native wildflowers brightening meadows and wetlands, plants provide food, shelter, beauty, and the foundation for every ecosystem. This […]

Door County’s natural beauty and unmistakable creative spirit have long inspired artists — and our band, Zen of Thieves, is no exception.  The County’s landscapes, trails, and community played a defining role in shaping our debut album, Birthplace of the Thunder, recorded […]

Door County’s forests, wetlands, and meadows are home to a remarkable diversity of fungi. From colorful shelf fungi on fallen logs to chanterelles emerging from the forest floor and the many species that form essential partnerships with trees, mushrooms are […]

By Lynn Michelsen, Business Manager, Crossroads at Big Creek Door County’s landscape is written in stone. From the towering bluffs along the bay of Green Bay to the smooth rocks scattered across Lake Michigan beaches, the peninsula’s unique character was […]

With Your Support, Coming Soon! by Laurie Buske Fish Creek’s history is woven into our downtown and shapes who we are. We take pride in preserving our past. Nearly two years ago, a group of us met at the Gazebo […]

By Lynn Michelsen, Business Manager, Crossroads at Big Creek “Butterflies” is this week’s Summer at Crossroads theme, and this time of year our meadows, gardens, and open fields are alive with color and motion as butterflies move through one of […]

By Lynn Michelsen, Business Manager, Crossroads at Big Creek Door County is home to an amazing variety of animals, from butterflies drifting through summer meadows to mammals hidden in forests and wetlands. This week’s Summer at Crossroads theme, Animals, invites […]

4th of July Tips from the Wisconsin Humane Society With Independence Day firework shows firing off this weekend, the Wisconsin Humane Society (WHS) has tips to make sure your pets have a stress-free holiday. First, WHS does not recommend taking […]

“Birds” is this week’s Summer at Crossroads theme, and this time of year our skies, forests, and shorelines are alive with activity as resident and migratory birds feed, nest, and raise their young. Door County sits along a major migratory flyway, […]

By Coggin Heeringa, Crossroads at Big Creek Crossroads at Big Creek kicks off the summer season with the theme “Take a Hike.” Visitors are always welcome to explore our trails, and this week they can also enjoy the children’s book Take […]

By Coggin Heeringa, Crossroads at Big Creek This week at Crossroads at Big Creek, we focus our binoculars—and our programming—on birds. Birdwatching has become far more than a pleasant hobby. Birds are often described as “biological barometers,” or indicator species, […]

By Coggin Heeringa, Crossroads at Big Creek Spring has come…finally. And at Crossroads at Big Creek, we’re ready. We’ll be celebrating May Day during our Science Saturday program—and really, all week long. Traditionally, May Day in many European countries meant welcoming […]

By Coggin Heeringa, Crossroads at Big Creek We are well into meteorological spring, and this week we celebrate the Vernal Equinox—the astronomical first day of spring. While spring green-up and wildflowers are still weeks away, at Crossroads we will spend […]

Bu Coggin Heeringa, Crossroads at Big Creek Crossroads at Big Creek is honored to host Lee Kernen for a very special Fish Tales Lecture titled, “How Did Pacific Salmon Find Their Way to Door County?” on Thursday, February 26 at […]

By Coggin Heeringa Walleyes are the topic for Crossroads at Big Creek’s next Fish Tales Lecture, scheduled for Thursday, February 12 at 7:00 pm. Dr. Jason Breeggemann, Senior Fisheries Biologist with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, will present “Management […]

By Coggin Heeringa, Crossroads at Big Creek This week, we will celebrate Groundhog Day at Crossroads as part of our Science Saturday program. But why do we celebrate a rodent and its shadow on February 2. “Groundhog Day,” observed on […]

By Amy Frank As we embark upon our 100th anniversary, it is meaningful to reflect on how the Door County Historical Society was founded in 1926. At that time, there was growing concern that important historic sites, landmarks, and stories across […]

New beauty meets us at every step in all our wanderings.—John Muir Welcome 2026Whether you make resolutions for the new year or not, all of us at Write On hope that 2026 finds you happy and fulfilled. The new year […]

With the start of a new year just hours away, many people across the nation are coming up with resolutions for 2026. If that sounds like you, the Wisconsin Humane Society (WHS) has some great ideas pet owners could try. […]

Outside, snow solidified itself into graceful forms. The peace of winter stars seemed permanent.—Toni Morrison Welcome WinterAn email from an incoming resident from California said she was eager to experience winter again. We delivered: she arrived November 30, in the […]

With Thanksgiving right around the corner, the Wisconsin Humane Society is offering up some safety tips for pet owners to consider during the holiday. The first tip is to try limiting the holiday snacking. Thanksgiving of course means lots of […]

The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.—Carol Ryrie Brink Thank You Stranger!Saturday, I shopped for supplies for our Memoir Monday program. I waited in line behind a woman with a very […]

By Coggin Heeringa, Crossroads at Big Creek Pumpkins—lots of pumpkins—are piling up at Crossroads in preparation for two of our most popular family events. On Friday, October 10, at 4:00 PM, families will gather to carve pumpkins. The glowing Jack-o’-Lanterns […]

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. —Carlos Ruiz Zafón By Jerod Santek, Founding & Artistic Director, Write On, Door County Fall is full of exciting new opportunities at Write On, with many […]

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) invites the public to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Wisconsin State Park System by learning about its history of outdoor recreation, tourism and stewardship. Over the last 125 years, Wisconsin’s state park […]

Door County…300 miles of craggy, Great Lakes shoreline dotted with lighthouses, featuring epic sunsets and bluffy vistas year-round. The communities are a string of pearls, running up and down the peninsula, tying us all together. But most of all, the […]