Best Midwest State Parks

Five state parks--Newport, Peninsula, Potawatomi, Rock Island (pictured) and Whitefish Dunes--preserve the pebbled beaches, rocky bluffs and pine forests along the 80-mile-long Door Peninsula. Each park has its own landscape, but isolated on a peninsula, the Door County parks feel interrelated, too, like chapters in a book. So if you come all the way out here, you ought to visit more than one. (888) 936-7463

Door County State Parks