I went on my first camping trip and made sure to get to see some lighthouses. Did you know, that they do a lighthouse walk where you walk on the ladder above the dock?!

Sherwood Point Lighthouse, located near Idlewild in Door County, Wisconsin was officially established in 1883, after a two-year battle over title to the site. Situated on the west side of the north entrance to Sturgeon Bay, the point is named for Peter Sherwood, who settled there in 1836. The Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan Ship Canal and Harbor Company was formed in the early 1870s to create a canal between Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan, in the hopes of reducing the length of the shipping route into Green Bay. As the city of Sturgeon Bay began to grow in the 1870s as both a port and commercial center, it became increasingly clear that a lighthouse was needed to illuminate the mouth of the bay, especially since the canal was nearing completion and the closest lighthouse was fourteen miles to the north. The Lighthouse Board agreed to build a lighthouse if the Canal and Harbor Company obtained title to an appropriate site. Sherwood Point, with its thirty-foot limestone bluff, was a logical location for a lighthouse and was selected as the site in 1880.