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The Plants That Shape Door County

By Lynn Michelsen | August 4, 2026 |

Plants shape the character of Door County. From white cedars clinging to the Niagara Escarpment and sugar maples shading forest trails to native wildflowers brightening meadows and wetlands, plants provide…

Mushrooms of Door County: Exploring Nature’s Hidden Network

By Lynn Michelsen | July 28, 2026 |

Door County’s forests, wetlands, and meadows are home to a remarkable diversity of fungi. From colorful shelf fungi on fallen logs to chanterelles emerging from the forest floor and the…

Written in Stone: Exploring Door County Geology

By Lynn Michelsen | July 22, 2026 |

Door County’s landscape is written in stone. From the towering bluffs along the bay of Green Bay to the smooth rocks scattered across Lake Michigan beaches, the peninsula’s unique character…

Door County Animals

By Lynn Michelsen | July 14, 2026 |

Door County is home to an amazing variety of animals, from butterflies drifting through summer meadows to mammals hidden in forests and wetlands. This week’s Summer at Crossroads theme, Mammals,…

Butterflies

By Lynn Michelsen | July 8, 2026 |

“Butterflies” is this week’s Summer at Crossroads theme, and this time of year our meadows, gardens, and open fields are alive with color and motion as butterflies move through one…

What’s Happening: Birds

By Lynn Michelsen | June 30, 2026 |

“Birds” is this week’s Summer at Crossroads theme, and this time of year our skies, forests, and shorelines are alive with activity as resident and migratory birds feed, nest, and raise…

What’s Happening: Creatures of the Creek

By Lynn Michelsen | June 24, 2026 |

“Creek Creatures” is this week’s Summer at Crossroads Series, and this time of year, the creatures of the creek (and wetlands and ponds) are active over, under, and on the…

What’s Happening: Letting the Creek Run Free

By Lynn Michelsen | June 16, 2026 |

With Big Creek and The Cove Estuary both ecologically and symbolically at the heart of Crossroads at Big Creek, and with a water research lab currently located in the Collins…

What’s Happening: Run, Buzz, Explore

By Lynn Michelsen | June 9, 2026 |

At Crossroads at Big Creek, we have been as busy as bees this week, preparing for the 17th Annual Crossroads Trail Run on Saturday, June 13. And speaking of bees,…

What’s Happening: Dragonflies

By Lynn Michelsen | June 2, 2026 |

The Summer at Crossroads theme this week is dragonflies—an appropriate choice, in that these remarkable insects are now darting and gliding throughout the preserve. On Monday, June 8, at 2:00…

"At the doorstep to northern Door County sits a place so vast and varied that it defies description…This place is Crossroads at Big Creek"

Polly Fitz, Door County Living Philanthropy Issue 2022

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