You may have to wait until next year to utilize them, but the Door County Parks Department just started work to upgrade the facilities at three parks this week. Old steel-constructed restrooms at the Ahnapee State Trail County Park south of Sturgeon Bay and the Meridian County Park north of Jacksonport are being removed and replaced this fall. Door County Parks and Facilities Director Wayne Spritka says new bulk pit toilets will be installed at those two parks and the new Plum Bottom County Park that opened this past spring. 

Spritka notes that the park system in Door County experienced vandalism issues earlier this summer, but despite increased use, less damage has been reported lately. He adds that the group Friends of Door County Parks has placed donation tubes at three locations for visitors to put cash or even make a Venmo transaction to help support the parks. There are two tubes at Cave Point County Park and one at Ellison Bluff County Park.