Why we love it
A string of unusual habitats between old beach ridges, holding some of the rarest wildflowers in the Midwest. Go slow — this one rewards looking down as much as out.
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Björklunden
Lawrence University’s lakeside campus — seminars, lectures, and a chapel hand-painted by its original owners. A quietly remarkable place.
Cana Island Lighthouse
The walk across the causeway is half of it — a rocky spit of land with the lake on both sides of you, and then an island barely big enough for a…
- Dogs, with caveats
- Seasonal
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Door Shakespeare
Shakespeare outdoors under the trees, done seriously and done well. Pick the comedy or the tragedy — or make it both and argue about which was better.
- No dogs
- Seasonal