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Photographs from around the peninsula

A small collection of photographs from around Door County. Click any image to view it larger.

Sturgeon Bay Lighthouse, August 2026

A red lighthouse at the end of a long steel catwalk in Sturgeon Bay, along with wildflowers, a sandy beach and a roadside sign from the same late-August day.

  • A red lighthouse and its long steel catwalk seen through the branches of a leafy tree
  • A red lighthouse on a rocky base at the end of a steel catwalk beside a stone pier, with a person standing on the rocks
  • Looking down a long concrete pier beside a steel catwalk toward a small red lighthouse in the distance
  • A red lighthouse at the end of a steel catwalk, with a white boat passing and a person standing on the rocks beside the pier
  • A gray boat with an orange stripe and an American flag speeding through gray-blue water under a cloudy sky
Sturgeon Bay Lighthouse, August 2026

Klenke Garage, August 2026

An old ivy-covered garage with a red roof, a red metal chair by the door and a blue pickup truck planted with flowers.

  • An old blue and rust-colored pickup truck beside the road with its bed full of flowers and green foliage, in front of an ivy-covered building
  • A white garage with a red roof covered in ivy, a red metal chair by the door and an old blue pickup truck planted with flowers in front
  • An ivy-covered white garage with a red roof and an old blue pickup truck planted with flowers, seen from across the road
  • A weathered white garage door with a Klenke Garage sign above it, a red metal lawn chair in front and ivy climbing the wall
Klenke Garage, August 2026

Road to Northport, State Route 42, August 2026

The winding road to Northport on State Route 42, with a few leaves just starting to turn.

  • A winding two-lane road with double yellow center lines curving through green trees with a few turning orange, and a small dark animal crossing the road
Road to Northport, State Route 42, August 2026

Door County Photographs

A small collection of photographs from around Door County.

  • A winding country road with yellow center lines curving through green woods
  • A vine-covered white garage with a red roof and an old blue pickup truck planted with flowers
  • Weathered garage sign above a white door with a red metal lawn chair in front
Door County Photographs

Sister Bay Fall Fest 2025

Scenes from Sister Bay’s 79th annual Fall Fest — the parade, the crowds, and the Door County tradition that draws thousands every fall.

  • A man leads a line of alpacas down the Fall Fest parade route past a stop sign
  • American Legion Sister Bay color guard members carrying the flag and a rifle in the parade
  • Marching band trombone players in blue and gold uniforms with plumed hats
  • Women in green and gold glitter uniforms waving gold pom-poms in the parade
  • Two women wearing tiaras and Miss Wisconsin sashes waving from a parade car
Sister Bay Fall Fest 2025

Sister Bay, February 2025

A few frozen moments from Sister Bay in winter, including the docks at Yachtworks Sister Bay.

  • The sun sets over an ice-covered harbor with empty docks in Sister Bay
  • Snow-covered fuel pumps on an empty dock at Yachtworks Sister Bay in winter
  • Icicles hang from a dock post amid snow drifts at Yachtworks Sister Bay
  • Snow falls around the Highway 42 and Deer Trail street signs near Sister Bay
Sister Bay, February 2025

Sister Bay, Labor Day Weekend 2023

Sunset over the water and fireworks in Sister Bay on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend, 2023.

  • A small sailboat silhouetted on the bay beneath a glowing orange sun, with a wooded point at left and a golden reflection on the water
  • A bright orange-white sun sinking toward the horizon in a dusky pink and purple sky, with a small boat on the water
  • A large, flattened orange sun on the horizon with a small motorboat silhouetted on the water below
  • A firework with long golden streamers and a green and red center, above a spiraling trail of light
  • Two overlapping fireworks, one red and one blue, against a black sky
Sister Bay, Labor Day Weekend 2023

Northport, Fall 2023

A fall morning around Northport: sunrise over the harbor breakwater, a boathouse tucked into the color along the shore, and the winding roads leading through the trees.

  • A stone boathouse with red chairs on its deck, tucked among fall-colored trees along the shoreline, with a rock breakwater in the foreground
  • Sunrise glowing behind a cloud bank over a rock breakwater, with gulls perched along the rocks
  • A winding two-lane road curving through a canopy of fall foliage in red, orange and gold
  • A winding road through fall foliage past a green Deer Trail street sign
  • A winding road curving past a Deer Trail street sign and mailbox, framed by red and gold fall foliage
Northport, Fall 2023

Seaquist Orchard, Spring 2024

Cherry blossoms in bloom at Seaquist Orchard, one of the peninsula’s cherry orchards, in spring 2024.

  • Rows of blooming white cherry trees in an orchard, with a grassy lane running between them
Seaquist Orchard, Spring 2024

Seaquist Dock & Ephraim, September 2026

An evening on the peninsula: bumblebees working the goldenrod at Seaquist Dock, then a family fishing and a fiery sunset at Anderson Dock in Ephraim.

  • A bumblebee reaching into golden goldenrod blooms in late-day light
  • A bumblebee foraging among goldenrod flowers, wings blurred in motion
  • A bumblebee clinging to a leaf beside a cluster of goldenrod blooms
  • A backlit bumblebee working its way across a spray of goldenrod
  • A bumblebee gathering pollen from bright yellow goldenrod flowers
Seaquist Dock & Ephraim, September 2026