Door County Cherry Orchards (WI-42 Corridor)

Cherry orchards line the WI-42 corridor the way other places have strip malls — they are the peninsula. Door County sits at the center of Wisconsin's cherry-producing identity, and the orchards shape the county's seasonal rhythm as visibly as anything else here. Spring brings the blossoms. Summer brings the fruit. The roadside markets and u-pick farms that follow are less tourist amenity than the actual point — the agricultural identity the place built itself around.