Newport State Park

8/22/25 - a beautiful park with some hiking trails and very easy access to the beach which is close to the parking lot. The sandy beach has a few mostly small rocks, but is not too bad. We enjoyed dipping our feet in the cool water. Somebody had fun stacking rocks and had to get a picture and video

One of the two large state parks in Door County, Newport State Park offers much better access to the water because it lacks bluffs. It's a fun hike with great views, plenty of woods, and a walkable shoreline. I totally recommend it.

I loved the views during the day. My husband and I wanted to experience the stars, but it was too cloudy. This park is especially interesting because it is considered a "Dark Sky" designation!!! We will be back.

Another gorgeous, heavily forested park on the shores of the sparkling Lake Michigan, and what makes this park so unique is that it’s one of the best spots in America for gazing up at the night sky and the stars. Even if you’re here during daylight hours, there are still spectacular sights worth seeing, such as the crystal clear water and the jagged cliffs of the northern edges of the park. You might even find a bald eagle soaring majestically over Lake Michigan, like I did as soon as I walked to the edge of the shoreline.

I def plan to come back to this park, especially at night. Clean and inviting. Beach is great.

It's a smaller and quieter state park. The trails are nice and the beach is okay. Would love to go back at night for the dark park!

This park has nice large trails in most cases with beautiful beaches and views provided your willing to walk a bit, there visitors center also has a nice amount of souvenir items to pick up as I like to grab a magnet and a sticker of wherever I've visited. Also they are a great place to star gaze but we didn't stay that late. There definitely a place though where you could spend a couple of days just walking around and enjoying yourself with not to many people around, only bad thing is they don't have a whole lot of bathrooms around as they are a bit stretched out and more of a hiking park, but I still would definitely love to vist them again someday!!

July 20 Sunday 2025. Visited and hiked about a 2 mile loop in the afternoon and it was nice. We checked out some hike in campsites next to the water. The water did smell a bit fishy or gross. Not sure if it’s because it was near the toilets or if something else is being washed in Near the campsites I wouldn’t swim there. But it was all right hike there was a few snakes we saw and a little bit of poison ivy closer to the lake, but otherwise nice and wooded. Later that night we went back for the night sky viewing, and it was an awesome View. They recommend coming early so you can see where you are walking. Definitely bring a red light otherwise to light your path we went about 9 o’clock, but the stars don’t get good until around 10 and unfortunately it closes at 11. I highly recommend if you don’t wanna just sit around and wait for the stars to maybe show up around 10 o’clock for the hour of really great viewing. We could see the Milky Way really well and we saw some shooting stars, which was cool.