The Garden Door
The Garden Door is a garden in Wisconsin, at a modelled elevation of 217 m. Dhuey Hill stands 277 m to the southwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Wisconsin Motorcycle Memorial Park, a park 1.7 miles away. Door County Coastal Byway runs past it. 9 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Access
- Yes
- Fee
- No
How to reach it
- On the Door County Coastal Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Wisconsin Motorcycle Memorial Park: 1.7 mi
- Burning Cow Music Festival: 1.9 mi
- Sevastopol Town Park: 2.2 mi
- Door County Fairgrounds: 2.6 mi
- Amity Field: 3.1 mi
- Crossroads at Big Creek-Ida Bay: 4.1 mi
- Bay Shore Blufflands Nature Preserve: 4.4 mi
- Doorland Preserve, Ltd.: 4.4 mi
- Bay Shore Blufflands Nature Preserve: 4.5 mi
- Bay Shore Blufflands Nature Preserve: 4.6 mi
- George J. Baudhuin: 4.1 mi
- Fred J. Peterson: 4.1 mi
- Captain John Roen: 4.1 mi
- Ellsworth L. Peterson: 4.1 mi
- Karl Overland: 4.2 mi
- Door County Museum and Archives: 3.7 mi
- Door County Maritime Museum: 4.2 mi
- Alexander Noble House Museum: 17.7 mi
- Belgian Heritage Center: 19.1 mi
- Two-Seat Privy: 20.1 mi
- Sunset Park Beach: 3.5 mi
- @Beach Harbor Resort: 3.8 mi
- Beach @ Potawatomi State Park: 3.9 mi
- Egg Harbor Beach: 11.7 mi
- Sunset Beach Park: 17.7 mi
- Mount Lowe: 2.2 mi
- 709: 4.7 mi
- Old Baldy: 7.1 mi
- Brussels Hill: 15.4 mi
- 595: 19.6 mi
- Oil House: 4.9 mi
- Fog Signal Building: 4.9 mi
- Sherwood Point Lighthouse: 4.9 mi
- Sherwood Point Cottage: 4.9 mi
- Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal Lighthouse: 5.9 mi
- Niagara Escarpment: 17.0 mi
- Svens Bluff: 18.3 mi
- Sister Bluffs: 22.9 mi
- Bear Statue: 19.5 mi
- Fisherman Statue: 19.6 mi
- Renard's Cheese & Deli: 11.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of The Garden Door. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dhuey Hill | SW 220° | 277 m | 21.9 mi |
| Brussels Hill | SW 235° | 259 m | 15.4 mi |
| Mount Lowe | WSW 248° | 226 m | 2.2 mi |
| 709 | WSW 257° | 216 m | 4.7 mi |
| Indian Mound | NW 315° | 189 m | 22.5 mi |
| 595 | N 10° | 181 m | 19.6 mi |
| 595 | N 9° | 181 m | 20.6 mi |
| 591 | N 9° | 180 m | 20.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:53 | 18:23 | 19:02 |
| June solstice | 05:04 | 19:55 | 20:40 |
| September equinox | 06:37 | 18:10 | 18:49 |
| December solstice | 07:25 | 15:23 | 16:12 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 18 | 20 | 30 | 41 | 53 | 63 | 68 | 68 | 60 | 48 | 36 | 25 |
| Precip in | 1.7 | 1.3 | 1.9 | 3.1 | 3.3 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 2.2 | 2.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Sturgeon BAY EXP Farm, under a mile away.
- Monarch8 obs
- white baneberry8 obs
- Red-spotted Admiral5 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee4 obs
- purple crownvetch4 obs
- orange hawkweed4 obs
- Great Spangled Fritillary4 obs
- Hairy Woodpecker4 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/12790326076
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