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An eco travel guide to beautiful Wisconsin countryside

Bailey’s Harbor, Wisconsin is shaped like a bowl with a tiny chip in the rim. A shallow shoal crosses the entire opening of the harbor. This made it treacherous for ships arriving to haul out white pine back in the 1800s, before modern navigation. As I stood in the wooded Ridges Sanctuary, I learned about the Ingenious folks who came up with a system of what they call range lights. It is a lighthouse with a white light that is 17 feet lower than the one in back, which has a red light.