Toft Point contains several outstanding native
plant communities concentrated on a 1-mile-wide
peninsula along Door County’s Lake Michigan
coast. The natural area is bordered on the
north by Moonlight Bay, and on the south by
Baileys Harbor. There are more than two miles
of Lake Michigan shoreline, with areas of wave-
cut dolomite cliffs. Stretches of limestone
cobble beach, mixed with marly soil, are
exposed during periods of low lake levels. The
natural area provides habitat for more than 440
vascular plant species and one of the most
diverse bryophyte (mosses and liverworts)
floras in the state. Toft Point, along with the
adjacent Ridges Sanctuary, contains many area-
sensitive bird species including seventeen
species of nesting warblers. The site is named
for Kersten Toft who received the land as
compensation for his work at a limestone quarry
nearby. Remaining on site is an historic kiln,
which is the state’s best intact example of the
early circular kilns.