TRAVEL GETAWAYS
Weekend Getaway: Door County
Door County, Wisconsin is a popular tourist destination in the spring and summer for it’s beautiful lakefront properties, wonderful hiking trails, and abundant cherry production. Whether you want to spend your time outdoors on the lake or wandering state parks, or browsing local shops and art galleries, we’ve got you covered. No trip to Door County would be complete without Wisconsin’s best cheese curds and an authentic fish boil, and we’ll tell you where exactly to find these culinary treasures. Stay tuned for the best of where to stay, what to do, and where to eat in Door County.
By Rebecca Holland
Rose Phillips featured Travel Getaways are ideal travel destinations.
Check out The Little Nell luxury lodge in Aspen as well as a
Cape Cod favorite, The Chatham Bars Inn for your next getaway.
This picture perfect inn is the ideal getaway from city life, and the fun nautical theme plays into the summer vacation feel.
Claire and Frank Murphy opened the inn in 2008 after they were both let go of their jobs in Chicago. They had “had enough of corporate America and enough of the recession,” so they moved to Door County to work for themselves. They’ve been busy ever since. So busy, in fact, that during the summers they schedule only one weekend off the entire season.
The lighthouse theme, complete with a tower on top of the inn, is what sets the b&b apart from others in the area. “We wanted to be guy friendly,” says Claire. “Not frilly.”
The breakfast helps too. I’ve never had such delicious peach cobbler in my life, and the egg bake and endless coffee made my morning. The menu changes all the time, though cherry pancakes are a favorite and show up more often than other items. The real standout though is Claire and Frank themselves. They were so friendly and courteous during my stay, and their stories were fascinating. For larger parties, vacation rental properties are also available.