Cave Point County Park: A Local’s Guide (After 23 Years of Paddling It)
You’ve seen the photo. Cliff jumpers in mid-air, deep blue water below, white limestone shelf curving back into a cove. That photo gets re-shot every summer, by everyone. We’ve been running tours from a building 15 minutes up the road for 23 years, and after enough seasons you start noticing the things the photo doesn’t show. This is what we tell guests at Cave Point County Park, in the order they actually need to know it. What you’re looking at when you stand on the bluff Cave Point is a 19-acre county park on the Lake Michigan side of the Door County peninsula, about three miles south of Jacksonport. The cliff is Niagaran dolomite, the same limestone formation that runs all the way to the actual Niagara Falls in New York. Lake Michigan has been chewing on it for thousands…
Cave Point County Park: The Honest Local’s Guide to Door County’s Most Photographed Cliffs
Most people who visit Cave Point County Park leave having seen maybe 10% of it. They walk the bluff, take the limestone-and-turquoise photo, post it, and drive away. The other 90% sits below them. You can’t see it without getting on the water. We’ve been running tours from a shop right next door for 23…