Door County

Door County

Door County, Wisconsin is the playground for the well-to-do from the Chicago area. It is a peninsula jutting out into Lake Michigan with many resort towns teeming with tourists. Door County, Wisconsin is the playground for the well-to-do from the Chicago area. It is a peninsula jutting out into Lake Michigan with many resort towns teeming with tourists.Took the mandatory trip to Gills Rock (the northern tip of the peninsula), since neither of us had ever been to Door County. The peninsula is on a fragile ecosystem of limestone. Some areas have only two or three inches of topsoil, making farming or development difficult. People, however, want a piece of this beautiful countryside admist the fruit orchards, land and seascapes. So the area has been overdeveloped, tilting the delicate balance to problem levels.

Door County