Parkwood Lodge on a Scenic Byway!
Parkwood Lodge is located on the new scenic byway!!
Door County’s Coastal Byway (state trunk highway 42/57), stretching over 66 miles, is the latest route to be designated a Wisconsin Scenic Byway. State DOT Secretary Frank Busalacchi recently approved the route that begins just north of Sturgeon Bay, travels north to the town of Northport, and then south to Bailey’s Harbor and Jacksonport.
The Door County Coastal Byway Committee, which nominated the route, plans to use the new Scenic Byway designation to help promote Door County as a four-season tourist destination. The designation offers a number of benefits, such as allowing the use of unique scenic byway logo signs to mark the route, and promoting preservation of an area’s scenic, historical and recreational treasures. It also allows the scenic byway to compete for federal grants to enhance the route for visitors.
The new route in Door County was chosen because it offers a range of scenic resources and activities all along the way. There are dozens of scenic vistas of Lake Michigan, the Bay of Green Bay and the Niagara Escarpment bluffs, as well as areas of dense forest, agricultural lands, orchards and quaint shore-side towns and villages.
The route also provides access to three state parks, ten county parks and several lighthouses. Towns and villages along the way offer retail stores, art galleries, live music and theatre, cherry and apple orchards, boating, fishing, hiking, golfing and other recreational activities.
Wisconsin’s Scenic Byway program was established in 2005, allowing communities to nominate a numbered state or federal (non-interstate) highway segment 30 miles long or longer that would provide travelers an enjoyable visual, educational and recreational experience. The Wisconsin 42/57 route in Door County is the third to receive the official Scenic Byway designation. The others are the Lower Wisconsin River Road (state trunk highway 60) and the Great River Road (state trunk highway 35).
