We have gone to Door County twice specifically to cache, both times in the off season. We’d camped with our kids a couple times years back, before caching. We love going up there in the winter. No crowds. A completely different feel. We had Cana Island light all to ourselves. Ditto on the Europe Bay cache, where we had the amazing good fortune to encounter a wolf pair on our way out. (Yes, there are DNR confirmed sightings of them up there).

Both times we stayed at the White Lace Inn Inn in Sturgeon Bay. Rates are really great off season, about like any chain motel. If you time a trip to be on a Thursday night, there’s free live music and beer! There are some caches up there we still want to do, but aren’t so easily accessed with snow.

We agree with your geocaching road trip philosophy. We spent a couple days this summer in west central Minnesota over to the SD border. Our caches were chosen much as you chose, and we discovered some wonderful spots known mostly to the locals. I have done the same thing with my long distance trips to Hawaii last summer and Newfoundland this. We hope yet to visit the North Shore of Minnesota with a cacher’s eye. I spent a lot of time there as a kid….Dad’s from Duluth….so I’ll be curious to see if it takes me anywhere new. Don’t care. Any excuse is a great one to travel there! It’s a great way to see all those little corners of a state and slows us down to appreciate the back roads and small towns.

Awesome! Congrats! It’s definitely showed us some things even in our own “back yard”. My family has camped at Perrot State Park for over 37 years and my husband and I finally decided this summer to start hitting all of the state parks so our goal is to camp and GC at them over the next few years. I can’t quite sell him yet on the idea of a GC roadtrip day. We want to do some local parks in fall once the heat dies down so maybe next spring!