Road work, repairs and upgrades at three state parks and a boat launch in Door County were among the projects approved May 7 by the Wisconsin State Building Commission.
The Door County projects are at Potawatomi State Park and Whitefish Dunes State Park in Sturgeon Bay, Peninsula State Park in Fish Creek and the Rowleys Bay Boat Landing. They were approved at a total cost of about $7.7 million, part of a $125 million package of capital projects across the state approved by the commission, according to news releases from the offices of Gov. Tony Evers, who is a member of the commission, and state Sen. Andre Jacque, whose district includes Door County and who also is a member of the commission.
Whitefish Dunes State Park, on the Lake Michigan shore in Door County, will see improvements to two of its trails as part of a group of improvements for three state parks and a boat landing in Door County that were approved May 7 by the Wisconsin State Building Commission.
Road work at Potawatomi involves repairing and repaving asphalt roadways that are deteriorated enough that they can’t be maintained properly, widening South Shoreline Road and South Norway Road to add bike/pedestrian lanes in each direction, reconfiguring parking lots to improve accessibility and provide additional parking, and improving drainage.
Also at Potawatomi, water supply lines for the Daisy Field campground, which are between 65 and 75 years old, will be replaced. The news release from Jacque said campground users there have complained about the water color and mineral content.
Work at Peninsula State Park includes resurfacing a little less than a mile of Shore Road beginning at the park’s Fish Creek entrance; improving parking areas at the golf course, driving range, Eagle Terrace, Eagle Panorama and White Cedar Nature Center; creating a new access and ticketing area at Eagle Terrace; installing a new solar panel at Eagle Terrace; and improving the existing White Cedar Trail.
Whitefish Dunes State Park will get improvements to its Black Trail and Black Shortcut Trail.
The boat landing at Rowleys Bay will see reconstruction of the existing boat launch and adjacent parking area.
Contact Christopher Clough at 920-562-8900 or cclough@gannett.com.
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This article originally appeared on Green Bay Press-Gazette: Door County state parks, boat landing OK’d for $7.7 million in improvements