Two Rivers, WI

Fishing Museum, Two Rivers, WI

 After a nice weekend and another bicycle ride around Fitchburg, WI, we traveled Monday to Two Rivers, WI.
This is the first time for us to visit this part of Wisconsin and to be on the western shoreline of Lake Michigan.  As we'd been told, not as sandy as it is in Michigan.  Still pretty, though.

We got off to a fast start on Tuesday by walking to the post office in town.  Just by chance we walked by the Washington House which was a hotel, bar, dinning, and entertainment center built in the middle 1800s to serve visitors traveling Lake Michigan and the fishing industry.  Now the place is a visitor's center, museum, and ice cream parlor.  And as you can tell, they claim that this town is home of the original ice cream sundae.  You'll have to make your own determination if that's true or not.  And there are two rivers here - East Twin River and West Twin River.

Two Rivers Beach area

On Wednesday we drove a couple of hours north past Sturgeon Bay to Peninsula State Park.  Excellent place to visit!  Well worth your time to go out of your way to see.  It has several campgrounds, many trails and a good unpaved bicycle trail.  It consists of bluffs that overlook Green Bay.  If you're in a good spot, you can see Michigan UP in the distance. Otherwise, you see

Two Rivers, WI

the islands in Green Bay.  Not sure what they're called.  One map lists them as Green Bay Islands.  Another map listed them as Strawberry Islands.  A couple have structures built on them.  One of the most popular of the islands is Horseshoe Island as it has a beautiful bay that protects boats from the prevailing winds.

We went to the park to hike the Eagle

Eagle Lighthouse, Peninsula State Park, WI

Terrace Trail, but found it too steep and narrow for our taste.  We decided to walk the Sunset Trail.  That's the bicycle trail through the park.  It took us by the Eagle Lighthouse, several areas along the lake shore, north woodlands that give you that Christmas smell, the nature center, and Nicolet Bay & Beach.

Today, we drove to Green Bay and rode our bicycles along the East River Trail.  We went to lunch a Kroll's West just across the street from Lambeau Field.  After lunch we walked the Fox River Trail.  The Fox River is the longest of the bicycle trails in the Green Bay area and is a nice path, but we didn't find that trail to be very scenic as the riverbanks of the Fox River are generally industrial areas.  Looks like a good ride, though.

Nicolet Harbor and Horseshoe Island

That's been our week.  The campground we're in is located on an unpaved bicycle trail that travels north to a local national forest area and beaches.  Go south and it links up to a paved trail that travels down to Manitowoc, WI.  That's our planned trip for tomorrow.

Sunset Trail

We're here through the weekend.  Plans are to return to DeForest Monday and stay through Labor Day.  We head south to Illinois after that for a planned Folks-on-Spokes Gulf Shores rally near St Louis, MO.  As always, that's the plan!

So that wraps up this week.  Thanks for stopping by and checking up on us.  Hope you had a good view of the eclipse.  (We had clouds and got cool.)

Sunset Trail

Until next week, David


P.S.  Lots of pictures this week.  Hope you enjoy them!

View from Sunset Trail

Green Bay Islands