- A light blanket of snow covers the preserve. Open water and birds in The Cove Estuary.
EVENTSAT CROSSROADS
There’s almost always something happening at Crossroads! Whether you are looking for a guided hike, a guest lecture, community gatherings, or the chance to volunteer, our event calendar is an excellent place to find event details and learn of any last-minute changes.
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Calendar of Events
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Decomposer Week
Crossroads is celebrating all things decomposition this Halloween week. join us throughout the week to learn about the decomposition process and its importance to our ecosystems. Check back throughout this week to join us for a variety of events featuring the plants and animals responsible.
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Superb Scavengers: Open Door Bird Sanctuary
Superb Scavengers: Open Door Bird Sanctuary
We are welcoming Open Door Bird Sanctuary, a local sanctuary providing homes for un-releasable birds of prey and their amazing animal ambassadors as they explore the importance of avian scavengers! Want to help us out with this event or others? Click here to find out how you can volunteer.
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An Informational Session on Lead and Arsenic Soil Remediation.
An Informational Session on Lead and Arsenic Soil Remediation.
Join us for an informational session on how Crossroads is dealing with lead and arsenic-contaminated soil – remnants of 20th century orchard management practices – in two areas on its preserve. Ken Ebbott, senior project manager and geologist with Sand County Environmental, will discuss the removal of contaminated soil. He will be joined by Crossroads…
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Composting Potluck
Composting Potluck
Continuing our celebration of natural decomposers, join Wild Ones of the Door Peninsula and the Door County Master Gardeners for a fresh look at composting. The community is invited to join us for an (optional) “Heavy hors d'oeuvre” Potluck, a meal of bite-sized samples. Each participant is asked to bring a plate of “finger-food”--- from…
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Junior Nature Club: Fall 2023
Junior Nature Club: Fall 2023
Junior Nature Club is a free, six-week series aimed at connecting pre-school aged children and their families to the natural world around them. Through the use of storytelling, games, activities, and play in nature, the Junior Nature Club promotes physical well-being, social engagement and curiosity about nature in both children and their parents or guardians.…
Campfire at Crossroads: Costumed Luminary Hike
Campfire at Crossroads: Costumed Luminary Hike
The nights are growing longer so why not brighten them up with a campfire and some good company? Join us on the first Friday of the month for a merry campfire, s'mores, and maybe even a campfire song. This month we are celebrating decomposer week and showing our Halloween spirit even if it’s a couple…
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Science Saturdays: Life in a Dead Log
Science Saturdays: Life in a Dead Log
Immerse yourself in a weekly science topic with our naturalists. Get hands-on with experiments, activities, crafts and more with a different topic each week as we explore the "What? Where? When? Why? and How?" of the world around us. This week we will be exploring life in a dead log. Science Saturdays is a free,…
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Crossroads Bird Club: Winter Finches
Crossroads Bird Club: Winter Finches
Bird Club – a gathering of people who love birds – meets the first Tuesday of every month at 6:30 p.m. Whether you're a life-long birder or newly interested we invite you to come learn about all things bird and birding-related. Want to help out with this event or others? Click here to find out how you…
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Junior Nature Club: Fall 2023
Junior Nature Club: Fall 2023
Junior Nature Club is a free, six-week series aimed at connecting pre-school aged children and their families to the natural world around them. Through the use of storytelling, games, activities, and play in nature, the Junior Nature Club promotes physical well-being, social engagement and curiosity about nature in both children and their parents or guardians.…
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Science Saturdays: Fit the Bill
Science Saturdays: Fit the Bill
Immerse yourself in a weekly science topic with our naturalists. Get hands-on with experiments, activities, crafts and more with a different topic each week as we explore the "What? Where? When? Why? and How?" of the world around us. This week we will be exploring bird beaks and bills to see how each shape meets a…
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DPAS Monthly Meeting: Digital Imaging
DPAS Monthly Meeting: Digital Imaging
The Door Peninsula Astronomical Society (DPAS) typically meets monthly at 7:00pm on the second Tuesday of the month at the Ray and Ruthie Stonecipher Astronomy Center, 2200 Utah Street, Sturgeon Bay, WI. DPAS operates and maintains the Leif Everson Observatory. This is equipped with a PlaneWave Instruments 17 inch f/6.8 Corrected Dall-Kirkham Astrograph telescope on…
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Door County Science on Tap: Total Solar Eclipse
Door County Science on Tap: Total Solar Eclipse
Stop by Bridge Up Brewing, grab a pint of your favorite beer and explore wide variety of science topics with the people specialized in their field in a casual setting. This month, the Ridges Sanctuary is hosting Dr. Brian Welsh, Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay will be discussing…
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Junior Nature Club: Fall 2023
Junior Nature Club: Fall 2023
Junior Nature Club is a free, six-week series aimed at connecting pre-school aged children and their families to the natural world around them. Through the use of storytelling, games, activities, and play in nature, the Junior Nature Club promotes physical well-being, social engagement and curiosity about nature in both children and their parents or guardians.…
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Science Saturdays: Sedimentary Rocks
Science Saturdays: Sedimentary Rocks
Immerse yourself in a weekly science topic with our naturalists. Get hands-on with experiments, activities, crafts and more with a different topic each week as we explore the "What? Where? When? Why? and How?" of the world around us. This week will involve hands-on demonstrations about the formation of sedimentary rocks, incorporating edible demonstrations. Please…
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Door County Beekeeper Club: Monthly Meeting
Door County Beekeeper Club: Monthly Meeting
The Door County Beekeepers Club holds their monthly meeting. The club promotes the study, science and craft of beekeeping through education, encouragement and community for all Door County beekeepers, and raises awareness to the benefits of bees for our environment, ecology and local economy. They meet once a month at various locations in Door County.…
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Crossroads Book Club: Lessons in Chemistry
Crossroads Book Club: Lessons in Chemistry
Crossroads Book Club is meeting again the 4th Wednesday of the month, at 10am in the Collins Learning Center. This month we're reading Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. Crossroads will have a few copies of the book available to borrow if needed. Whether you've read the book yet or not, we would love for…
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Collins Learning Center Closed
The Collins Learning Center will be closed for Thanksgiving day. Trails are open all day, every day.
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Junior Nature Club: Fall 2023
Junior Nature Club: Fall 2023
Junior Nature Club is a free, six-week series aimed at connecting pre-school aged children and their families to the natural world around them. Through the use of storytelling, games, activities, and play in nature, the Junior Nature Club promotes physical well-being, social engagement and curiosity about nature in both children and their parents or guardians.…
Thanksgiving Luminary-lit Hike
Thanksgiving Luminary-lit Hike
Looking for something to do after Thanksgiving? Take a walk on one of our trails in the enchanting glow of our luminaries. Then when you get back, warm up around a toasty campfire with a cup of hot chocolate and enjoy the company of good people. Whether you come to reflect on the year or…
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Science Saturdays: Turkeys
Science Saturdays: Turkeys
Immerse yourself in a weekly science topic with our naturalists. Get hands-on with experiments, activities, crafts and more with a different topic each week as we explore the "What? Where? When? Why? and How?" of the world around us. Wild turkeys will be the topic this week. We will explore the adaptions that enable turkeys…
Door County Movie Day
Door County Movie Day
Looking for something to do post Thanksgiving celebrations? Bring your family or out-of-town guests and spend the afternoon watching free nature-related movies about Door County with us in our auditorium. No tickets needed! 11:00 a.m. Wisconsin Hometown Stories: Door County 1:00 p.m. Ridge and Swale Part 1 2:00 p.m. Ridge and Swale Part 2 3:00…
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Wild Ones: A Year in Review
Wild Ones: A Year in Review
This month, the Door Peninsula chapter of the Wild Ones will be hosting their annual meeting and going over all the things they accomplished through 2023.
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Junior Nature Club: Fall 2023
Junior Nature Club: Fall 2023
Junior Nature Club is a free, six-week series aimed at connecting pre-school aged children and their families to the natural world around them. Through the use of storytelling, games, activities, and play in nature, the Junior Nature Club promotes physical well-being, social engagement and curiosity about nature in both children and their parents or guardians.…
Deck the Halls at Crossroads
Deck the Halls at Crossroads
Break out the wreaths, the ribbons, and holiday cheer! Join us as we decorate the nature center. Help us hang lights and welcome in the holidays with a potluck feast! Please RSVP below if you plan to attend and let us know if you want to bring something for the potluck.
Campfire at Crossroads
Campfire at Crossroads
The nights are long so why not brighten them up with a campfire and some good company? Join us on the first Friday of the month for a merry campfire, s'mores, and maybe even a campfire song. This month we are celebrating the start of the holiday season! Want to help out with this event…
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Fireside at Crossroads
Fireside at Crossroads
Throughout December, get cozy at Crossroads on Saturday afternoons during our open hours. Whether you want to warm up after a hike or just stop by for a cup of coffee and some conversation, we'll have some comfy seats set out, heat up the hot chocolate and pop some fresh popcorn for you!
Science Saturdays: Night Tree
Science Saturdays: Night Tree
Immerse yourself in a weekly science topic with our naturalists. Get hands-on with experiments, activities, crafts and more with a different topic each week as we explore the "What? Where? When? Why? and How?" of the world around us. Children and youth of all ages (and their families) will gather for our traditional "Night Tree"…
Crossroads Bird Club: Winter Finches