After the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources approved a variance for the Eagle Bluff Lighthouse inside Peninsula State Park, the Door County Historical Society hopes you can help support their efforts to make the dream a reality. Earlier this year, residents weighed in on a variance allowing the Door County Historical Society to add additional features to the site to expand its historical interpretation areas and other amenities to visitors. Even though the Door County Historical Society manages the site, the state owns the lighthouse, so the organization needs the variance approved to improve. Executive Director Amy Frank says having the variance approved is just the first step they needed to accomplish before returning the site to its 1868 roots.

Frank adds that some preliminary work is already underway at the lighthouse and its neighboring structures, but she hopes to have more DNR approval to work at the site by the end of May. The Door County Historical Society is approximately a third of the way to its $3 million goal for improving the Eagle Bluff Lighthouse site.