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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…

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…

We love Fish Creek and we think you will too! Fish creek is definitely amongst the best towns in Door Country. Even the nature itself behaves civil here. It houses the biggest golf course in all of Wisconsin. The great deal of water provides for amazing kayaking experience. The beaches are eye pleasing to say…

We’ve been guiding paddlers around Door County since 2002. Most of our guides also hike the trails on their off days. This is the list we tell guests when they ask, in the order we’d actually do them. 1. Cave Point Cliff Trail (Sturgeon Bay) Half-mile loop along the dolomite cliffs at Cave Point County…

November through March in Door County is a different vacation. Most restaurants close, most shops close, the trolleys stop running. The peninsula gets quiet in a way that summer never lets it be. The places that stay open are the best version of themselves. What’s actually open in winter Door County Brewing Co. in Baileys…

Most summer jobs in Door County are restaurant work, retail, or housekeeping. Those are real jobs and they pay the bills. But if you ask a guide what the best summer job on the peninsula is, the answer’s not in the restaurant. Guiding kayak tours. I’ve worked this peninsula since 2013. Other guides on our…

What is the best kayak to buy? With over 15 years of kayaking with beginners, we have honed in on what most people should be paddling. For most people, we highly recommend buying a sit on top kayak. You don’t have to learn and keep up to date on as many lessons Partner rescues Solo…

I can always tell when I am the first person of the day at one the most beautiful Door County parks called Cave Point County Park, based on the amount of spider webs I have to walk through in order to get to Jamaica Bay. After setting up my hammock at the usual location, the waiting game…

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…

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…

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…

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…