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FALL 2016 ISSUE 02 / VOL. 01
The Door County Coastal Byway comprises State Route 42 on the west side of the peninsula and State Route 57 on the east side.
A monument to Edward S. Bragg stands at a scenic overlook along U. S. Route 151.
At Manitowoc, U. S. 151 ends, so we hopped on State Route 42 and cruised the few miles to Two Rivers, Wisconsin, reaching it in the late afternoon.
The Lighthouse Inn where we stayed is older and situated smack dab on Lake Michigan. A restaurant with good, moderately priced food is attached. We walked the deserted beach before dark accompanied by screeching gulls, the rumble of a few speedboats and the fishy smell of the lake.
Returning to Route 42, temperatures seesawed between 52 and 76 degrees as we wandered in and out of woods, catching cool air from Lake Michigan. Every town was sprucing up for the summer season. Locals assured us that soon the loop would be clogged with traffic. For now, we headed north without delays, past apple orchards and cornfields before joining State Route 57, the eastern part of the scenic loop.