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Nature Attractions In Door County

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Door County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2010 census, the population was 27,785. Its county seat is Sturgeon Bay.The county was created in 1851 and organized in 1861. It is named after the strait between the Door Peninsula and Washington Island. The dangerous passage, known as Death's Door, is now scattered with shipwrecks, and was known to early French explorers and local Native Americans. Door County is a popular vacation and tourist destination, especially for residents of Wisconsin and Illinois.
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  • 3. The Ridges Sanctuary Baileys Harbor
    The Ridges Sanctuary is a 1,600-acre nature preserve and land trust in Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin. It is listed as a National Natural Landmark, Important Bird Area and Wisconsin State Natural Area.The sanctuary is also home to the Baileys Harbor Range Lights, which were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.The Cook-Albert Fuller Nature Center opened in 2015. The 7,400-square foot facility is LEED certified, and includes displays about the preserve's karst topography, wildflowers, plants, animals and the history of the site's founding.
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  • 5. Eagle Trail Fish Creek
    The Great Falls of the Missouri River are a series of waterfalls on the upper Missouri River in north-central Montana in the United States. From upstream to downstream, the five falls, which are located along a 10-mile segment of the river, are: Black Eagle Falls Colter Falls Rainbow Falls Crooked Falls, also known as Horseshoe Falls Big Falls, also known as the Great Falls, The Missouri River drops a total of 612 feet from the first of the falls to the last, which includes a combined 187 feet of vertical plunges and 425 feet of riverbed descent. The Great Falls have been described as spectacular, one of the scenic wonders of America, and a major geographic discovery. When the Lewis and Clark Expedition became the first white men to see the falls in 1805, Meriwether Lewis said they were th...
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  • 6. Nicolet Bay Beach Fish Creek
    The Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest is a 1,530,647-acre U.S. National Forest in northern Wisconsin in the United States. Much of the old growth forest in this region was destroyed by logging in the early part of the 20th century. Some of the trees that grow there today were planted by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s. Legally two separate national forests—the Chequamegon National Forest and the Nicolet National Forest—the areas were established by presidential proclamations in 1933 and have been managed as one unit since 1993. The Chequamegon National Forest comprises three units in the north-central part of the state totaling 865,825 acres . In descending order of forestland area, it is located in parts of Bayfield, Ashland, Price, Sawyer, Taylor, and Vilas counties. F...
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  • 7. Whitefish Dunes State Park Sturgeon Bay
    Whitefish Dunes State Park is a 867-acre state park of Wisconsin, United States, on the eastern shore of the Door Peninsula. This day-use park preserves the most substantial sand dunes on the western shore of Lake Michigan. The remains of eight successive prehistoric Native American villages are on the National Register of Historic Places as Whitefish Dunes-Bay View Site.
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  • 9. Sister Bay Beach Sister Bay
    This is a list of sister states, regions, and cities in the U.S. states of New England . Sister cities, known in Europe as town twins, are cities which partner with each other to promote human contact and cultural links, although this partnering is not limited to cities and often includes counties, regions, states and other sub-national entities. Many New England jurisdictions partner with foreign cities through Sister Cities International, an organization whose goal is to, Promote peace through mutual respect, understanding, and cooperation. Sister cities interact with each other across a broad range of activities, from health care and education to business and the arts.
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  • 13. The Garden Door Sturgeon Bay
    American cuisine reflects the history of the United States, blending the culinary contributions of various groups of people from around the world, including indigenous American Indians, African Americans, Asians, Europeans, Pacific Islanders, and South Americans. Early Native Americans utilized a number of cooking methods in early American Cuisine that have been blended with early European cooking methods to form the basis of American cuisine. The European settlement of the Americas yielded the introduction of a number of various ingredients, spices, herbs, and cooking styles to the latter. The various styles continued expanding well into the 19th and 20th centuries, proportional to the influx of immigrants from many different nations; this influx nurtured a rich diversity in food preparat...
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  • 15. Sister Bay Dog Park Sister Bay
    Chicago , formally the City of Chicago, is located on the shores of freshwater Lake Michigan, and is the third most populous city in the United States. As of the 2017 census-estimate, Chicago has a population of 2,716,450, which makes it the most populous city in both the state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States. It is the county seat of Cook County, the second most populous county in the U.S. Chicago is the principal city of the Chicago metropolitan area, which is often referred to as Chicagoland. The Chicago metropolitan area has nearly 10 million people, is the third-largest in the United States, the fourth largest in North America, and the third largest metropolitan area in the world by land area. Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a portage between the Great Lak...
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