Door Peninsula

[ dawr ]

noun

1. a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.

Example Sentences

I was on a ferry in Door County, Wis., crossing from bucolic Washington Island to the Door Peninsula, a roughly 70-mile-long finger of land that stretches out from the mainland, set prettily between the bay and the lake.

From Wall Street Journal

He and his wife, Ms. Yamamoto, a weaver whom he married in 1987 after they met through an ad in The Chicago Tribune, lived on Washington Island, in Lake Michigan, just north of the Door Peninsula in Wisconsin.

From New York Times

The Door Peninsula Coastal Wetlands and its 11,400 acres have been recognized as globally significant for protection under an international treaty.

From Washington Times