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Cave Point vs. Apostle Islands: Which Sea Cave Kayak Trip to Pick
If you live in the upper Midwest and you’ve been Googling sea-cave kayaking, two names come up: Cave Point in Door County, and the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore on Lake Superior. They’re the two real sea-cave destinations between the Rocky Mountains and the Atlantic. They’re also very different trips. We run tours at Cave Point and we’ve paddled the Apostles. Here’s the honest comparison so you can pick the right one for what you actually want. The 60-second answer Pick Cave Point if you want a beginner-friendly day trip from Chicago, Milwaukee, or Madison, you have kids in the group, or you want to do this as part of a Door County weekend. Pick the Apostle Islands if you have multi-day paddling experience, you want bigger and more dramatic sea caves, you’re willing to do a longer drive and a…
Door County Wildlife: What You’ll Actually See from a Kayak
Most Door County wildlife guides are written for hikers and birders. Fair, that’s how most visitors experience the peninsula. But the kayak view is its own thing. From a sit-on-top boat at water level, you see fish, birds, and shoreline mammals at angles you can’t get from a car or trail. After 23 years of guiding paddles, here’s the honest list of what you’ll actually spot, when, and where. What you’ll see in summer (June through August) Six animals you’ll likely see on a Door County kayak trip in peak season: Bald eagles. The peninsula has a healthy bald eagle population. Look for them perched in tall pines along the shoreline or circling on thermals over the bluffs. We see eagles on roughly half of our summer tours. Cana Island has a nesting pair some years. Door Bluff Headlands almost…
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…
Whitefish Dunes State Park: A Visitor’s Guide from Next Door
Whitefish Dunes State Park is the 867-acre Wisconsin state park immediately south of Cave Point County Park, on the Lake Michigan shoreline. Most Door County visitors who go to Cave Point either drive past Whitefish Dunes without knowing what they’re missing or hit the beach for an hour and call it done. There’s more there than that. We’ve been pointing kayak guests at the state park for 23 years. Here’s the version of Whitefish Dunes you’d want to know if you’re planning a Door County trip. What Whitefish Dunes State Park is Whitefish Dunes is a Wisconsin state park covering 867 acres of dunes, beach, hardwood forest, and limestone shoreline on the Lake Michigan side of the Door County peninsula. The park preserves the largest sand dune system on the Lake Michigan side of Wisconsin, with the highest dune (Old…