There is a moment, about halfway across the causeway to Cana Island, when you look down and realize the path under your feet has quietly disappeared. One step you’re on limestone gravel; the next you’re standing in Lake Michigan, water sloshing around your ankles, with an 1869 lighthouse dead ahead and a tractor rumbling past … Read more
Every shoreline has one spot that locals stop apologizing for. In Door County — a peninsula that runs on cherry stands, fish boils, and lighthouse postcards — that spot is a scrappy little county park on the Lake Michigan side where the waves do the talking. Cave Point doesn’t have a marina, a gatehouse, or … Read more
Most visitors to Milwaukee see the lake the way they see it from a car window: a bright blue band on the eastern edge of everything, there and gone between buildings. Locals know better. The city’s lakefront is its front porch, and nowhere is that more true than in Bay View, the leafy south-side neighborhood … Read more