Kohler-Andrae State Park
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Kohler-Andrae State Park is on Lake Michigan just south of Sheboygan, and it is really two parks run as one: the lakeshore that Terry Andrae’s widow gave to the state after he died in 1927, and the land to the north that the Kohler Company added in 1966 in memory of its founder, John Michael Kohler. Behind the beach is a band of dunes, protected as the Kohler Dunes State Natural Area, and the Dunes Cordwalk, a trail of wooden planks laid on the sand and lined with rope, runs through them. I walked it on June 27, 2021, a gray afternoon in a summer I spent hiking Wisconsin’s state parks, past grassy dunes, hollows of open sand dotted with creeping juniper, and old, weathered logs half buried by the wind. At the north end, the Sanderling Nature Center has a long exhibit of birds and animals mounted in front of a painted mural of the shore.
Photos from Kohler-Andrae State Park
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Creeping juniper in a hollow between the dunes.
Old logs half buried beside the cordwalk.
The exhibit hall in the Sanderling Nature Center.