PAPA TRAVELS - CAVE POINT COUNTY PARK IN DOOR COUNTY

Now this is a park!

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Personally, I would call this a must see for anyone checking out the Door County, WI area. However, this part is also easy to miss.

A lot of the parks that I went to growing up were county parks. These are the local parks ran by the county that they are in, rather than by the state or nation. Everyone hears about national parks, and state parks get a lot of recognition and interest too, but county parks can be overlooked. Even this one is right next door to Whitefish Dunes State Park.

In the lower right corner of the photo above you can make out the "Whitefish Dunes State Park" sign. Even though I was born just south of here and lived in Wisconsin for most of my life, "Cave Point County Park" was not a recognizable name, although "Whitefish Dunes" was.

Even though the park may not get as much interest as it could, it is still a park worthy of requiring this sign!

FOR THE #VIDEO FOLKS, WAIT NO LONGER!

CAVE POINT PARK

Cave Point County Park is located on the shore of Lake Michigan in Door County, WI just south of Jacksonport. It just off of Highway 57, and is well worth the trip.

The signs about how dangerous it is are due to the cliffs along the shoreline. With no fences or guardrails, you can walk right up to the edge and admire the water below.

Many of the cliffs actually have small caves in them, so in some parts, you are actually standing over a hollow cave with water in the bottom of it.

You can see a small cave in this photo. I was thinking about taking some kayaks down there to check it out from a different angle. We will have to see if we can get down there that way.

A TROPICAL PARADISE?

One thing that really impressed me was the water color too. In many of the places it was a light blue-green and looked like something out of the Caribbean.

I half expected to see a dolphin or something. It was very interesting and very inviting to view this water. The cliffs were amazing and the water was excellent! What more could you ask for?

If the air and water would have been a little warmer, I could have almost thought that we were somewhere in the Caribbean... although one can still dream.

FAMILY FUN

I climbed around to explore a bit more, as did the rest of the family. The @little-peppers enjoyed their time with @grandpa-pepper too!

Since children are supposed to be supervised, we figured that we might as well just hold hands with them most of the time. We climbed, looked, wandered, and enjoyed the park for quite a while. Rumor has it that I once came here as a little man, but I only remember seeing the photo for the most part.

Eventually we wandered down to a different part a little further North, where we saw a most peculiar thing. I did a whole photo shoot of the area for an upcoming post, so for now I will just share a video for whoever is interested.

A very interesting thing to behold indeed. I wonder what it all means?

CLIFF JUMPING???

As we were about to leave and head back to the condo, something interesting began to happen. The little blue-green lagoon with overhanging cave became a point of interest for some young people (Man do I sound old writing that!).

The blur in the top center and slightly left in that photo is a kid. The kid is jumping off the cliff and into Lake Michigan.

Here he is making a splash. In total about four kids spent some time jumping off of the cliff. I am not even sure if it is legal, but it is what they were doing anyway. At least no one got hurt.

As I said when I linked the second video, I did a photo shoot of some interesting stuff here too, so keep an eye out for that. Otherwise, if you are ever in the area, why not stop in here and check it out?

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As always, I'm @papa-pepper and here's the proof:

proof-of-cave-point-county-park

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Until next time…

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