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d n a l y r r e h C USA Door County is synonymous with cherries. Cool spring weather makes the peninsula an ideal cherry-growing climate, and as Memorial Day nears, the most-asked question of spring is always, “Are the cherry trees blooming yet?”
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he 2,500 acres of beautiful, white blossoms usually paint the countryside in mid- to late May, starting on the southern part of the peninsula and working north a day to a few days later.
You can also catch great views of blossoms along Old State Road and County ZZ in Sister Bay, along Shiloh Road and County HH in Sturgeon Bay, and on Cherry Lane in Forestville.
To follow the status of the season, check Destination Door County’s Cherry Blossom Report at DoorCounty. com, or visit the Peninsula Pulse on Facebook for updates.
Those are just a few great places to look, but there are more to discover as you travel the peninsula’s back roads. If we’re lucky, the blossoms stick around for a couple of weeks, but a bright field of blossoms can fade overnight. Soak them in when you can!
Where to See the Blossoms
Pick Your Own
One reason people fall in love with Door County is because of the way the quaint villages are broken up by expanses of agriculture and forest. Blossoms can be seen along Harbor School Road just outside the village of Egg Harbor, along Highway 42 between Egg Harbor and Fish Creek near Hyline Orchard and Lautenbach’s Orchard Country Winery and Market, and north of Sister Bay at Seaquist Orchards.
Come late July, the cherries will be ripe for picking. Fill your buckets to make cherry pie, tarts or maybe even a little cherry bounce for next year. Pick your own cherries at Cherry Lanes Orchards, Choice Orchards, Kielar Akers Orchard, Robertson Orchards, Door County Fruit Connection, Schartner’s Farm Market, Hyline Orchard, Lautenbach’s Orchard Country Winery and Market, Meleddy Orchard and Sorens Valhalla.
Photo by Brett Kosmider.
