Crossroads is a donor-supported learning preserve dedicated to life-long learning in science, history and the environment. The Collins Learning Center, located at 2041 Michigan, is open daily from 2 - 5 pm and during scheduled events.
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Each year on the first Saturday of March, Crossroads at Big Creek celebrates Aldo Leopold Day. This has become a time for Door County environmentalists to come together and re-dedicated themselves to following a “land ethic.” Some years we have hosted a marathon reading of the book A
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American Indians invented snowshoes, presumably in a snowier era. For centuries, snowshoes have been used for transportation in Wisconsin, though these days, snowshoeing is a recreational way to exercise while getting in touch with nature. Because Crossroads at Big Creek now owns fabulous new snow
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On Tuesday evening, February 28, the Door County Master Gardener Lecture will be “Wild Rice, Our Native Treasure.” Guest speaker Juniper Sundance will discuss of the world of wild rice, one of northern Wisconsin’s native treasures. The Ojibwa and Menominee have traditionally enjoyed
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“What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” –Shakespeare in “Romeo and Julie
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Night comes early this time of year, and on clear evenings at Crossroads at Big Creek, we have had spectacular views of the night sky…..the planet Jupiter surrounded by thousands of twinkling stars. And as they leave our evening programs, people often ask why stars twinkle? Twinkling h
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It’s February—the month of hearts and flowers. I don’t know if I can stand the stress of all the romance. Oh, be still, my beating heart! Though it seems like a bit of déjà vu, in February we celebrate Ground Hog’s Day, a secular and non-commercial holiday dedicated to a ro
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During summer, it’s easy to overlook beech trees. They are just a part of the ubiquitous green of the growing season. But this time of year, when leaves are absent from most other trees, the doeskin-colored leaves give us some much appreciated color here on the peninsula. A naturalist colleagu
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Teddy Bears were wildly popular in 1906, within the depiction period of the Greene General Store in the Historical Village at The Crossroads, but the Door County Historical Society could never afford to buy a authentic antique teddy bear from that year. To anyone alive today, teddy bears have alwa
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Night comes early this time of year, and on clear evenings at Crossroads at Big Creek, we have had spectacular views of the night sky…..the planet Jupiter surrounded by thousands of twinkling stars. And as they leave our evening programs, people often ask why stars twinkle? Twinkling h
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Snowshoe hares live in some of the more remote parts of Door County, but we don’t seem to have snowshoes at Crossroads at Big Creek. We don’t, that is, have the large members of the rabbit family. We do have quite few snowshoes, thanks to the young people who are part of the 4-H Engag
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