7 Reasons to Host Your Bachelorette Party in Door County
Every best friend knows hosting a bachelor or bachelorette party is no small feat! The booking, planning, and coordinating can seem like an impossible task and, at times, overwhelming for that perfection-seeking maid of honor. Luckily, Door County provides the perfect venue with a variety of activities to satisfy even the choosiest of brides-to-be! 1….
Baileys Harbor, Door County: Where Repeat Visitors Pick
Why people pick Baileys Harbor Baileys Harbor is the lake-side town on Door County’s quieter coast. It sits on Lake Michigan, not Green Bay, which means sunrises over open water, calmer downtown sidewalks, and fewer trolleys than Fish Creek or Ephraim. People who come back year after year mostly come back here. It also happens…
7 Reasons Why Newport State Park is the Best Park
We love this State Park and we know you will too! Newport state park is a wilderness park, it’s a stargazer’s dream and a kayakers dream too! What more could you want from one of the 5 gems of Door County’s State Parks. Close to Ellison Bay, Newport State Park in Door County is Wisconsin’s…
7 Activities That Make Cave Point County Park the Best Park in Door County!
We love this County park and so will you! Cave Point County Park is one of the top destinations located in between Sturgeon Bay and Jacksonport, Door County! It is a picturesque spot that has an abundance of family activities to do in and around it with a guide or without, during winter, spring, fall…
A Door County Guide’s Favorite Things to Do (After 20+ Seasons Here)
I’ve been guiding kayak tours in Door County since 2013, and the company started in 2002. We get the “what should we do?” question every day, and most of the lists out there read like AI scraped a brochure. This is what we’d actually tell a friend planning a 3 to 5 day trip. The…
A Kayak is the Best Way to Experience Cave Point County Park
Despite being just a county park, Cave Point County Park still hosts as one of Door County’s most popular summer hot spots for both returning and new tourists; as it rightfully should be. The park offers visitors 19 acres of lakeshore to hike along and make way out to bluff edges and beaches, with breathtaking…
Austin Kayak Tours
After a fun summer, we made some moves to start Austin kayak tours called Lone Star Kayak Tours. These kayak tours will be in-between Austin, Texas and San Antonio, Texas. The two tours will be a kayak tour of the Congress city Bat Bridge during May through October and a kayak trip of San Marcos River, just in-between the…
3 Cool Door County Secret Sites
Ancient Door County By Kayak As the resident anthropologist on the team at DCKT, I wanted to mention a few of the exciting elements of ancient Door County you can see and experience by kayak. Door County is home to a number of interesting cultural sites, some dating back to prehistoric times! Many people are…
Clark Lake & Logan Creek vs. Rieboldt Creek: The Door County Wetland Paddle Comparison
The first thing to know if you’re searching for “Clark Lake kayak” or “Logan Creek kayak” in Door County: the most beautiful stretch of that water, Logan Creek itself, is exclusive to one operator. You can’t book it through us. You can’t easily access it on your own. Here’s what we’d point you to instead….
Kayaking Merit Badge: A Guide for Scout Troops
If you lead a troop, you already know the hard part of the kayaking award is not the written work. It is getting a group of scouts safe, confident, and signed off on the water in a single trip. That part we can help with. Here is what the badges ask for and how a…