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Door County Photography: 9 Spots Locals Actually Shoot

If you Google “best Door County photography spots,” you’ll get a list of 25 places written by someone who came up for a long weekend. The list will include every single town on the peninsula. We’ve been on this water with cameras for 23 years and we’d argue 9 spots is the right number, ranked. Three rules first: this list is for visitors with a camera (any camera, including a phone) who want to come home with images that don’t look like every other Door County tourist’s. We’re not ranking by what’s most-photographed (that’s just the parking-lot list). We’re ranking by what actually rewards the time you spend there. 1. Cave Point cliff edge at golden hour The 30 minutes before sunset, when the limestone cliff face goes copper. Stand at the bluff edge above the main cave, frame the…