Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Hold your left hand up for a moment, palm out. The thumb is, as the Depression-era WPA
Wisconsin guidebook put it, “the spout, as it were, of the Wisconsin teakettle.” That's the
Door Peninsula. Early French inhabitants called the watery cul-de-sac formed by the pen-
insula La Baye (later, La Baye Verde, and finally, Green Bay). “Cape Cod of the Midwest”
andothersillylikenings(even“California oftheNorth,”ifyoucanbelieve it)arecommon
here.
Comparisons to Yankee seaside villages don't wholly miss the mark, though in spots
the area just as much resembles chilled, stony Norwegian fjords. Bays in all the colors of
an artist's palette are surrounded by variegated shoreline: 250 miles (more than any other
