Drive trivia
According to legend, how many total curves are there on the Drive?
93
This landmark on the drive was originally built in 1949 to be a clubhouse for a golf course.
Hitching Post
Most dedicated runner on the drive
Lee Kumer
Dolomite outcroppings and cliffs are the result of this geologic feature that runs throughout the Peninsula
Niagara Formation
Frank Capra 1946 Classic “It’s a Wonderful Life” features this Hollywood icon as the ever patient wife Mary
Donna Reed
These popular birds' primary food sources are carpenter ants, beetle larvae, termites and other insects. The entrance to their nest is oblong.
pileated woodpecker
In what year, according to documents on the GDA website, was the first summer home built on Glidden Drive?
1913
One of the most identifiable and safety conscious dog walking couples on the drive
Debbie and Danny
Door County has ____ miles of shoreline more waterfront than another county in the US.
Before becoming 1960s glamour girl, she played the questioning daughter in “Miracle on 34th Street”
Natalie Wood
Number of curving miles of the drive as per this sign right before the boat ramp?
What magazine in 1969 described Door County as "A Kingdom So Delicious" and could have been one of the first major outside influences of the price of real estate increasing?
National Geographic
Drive resident who has put in countless hours of volunteer hours into Door County's broadband service.
Hugh Zettel
This President first suggested preservation of the Shivering Sands area including what is now Whitefish Dunes State Park
Theodore Roosevelt (1905)
The song “Silver and Gold” was first performed during this made for tv movie
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
Of the 117 Rustic Roads in Wisconsin, in what way or how is Glidden Drive the most diverse?
Biologically. It has 13 Lake Michigan accessess, five streams and a public boat ramp. It also skirts the largest natural wetland area in DC The Shivering Sands Wetland Complex.
This Bay was named after a daughter of an owner of a lumber company who harvested virgin pine and cedar around 1884?
Lily Bay
This twosum are going to Artarctica in January.
Terry and Paula Fox
Business associated with this fruit peaked prior to WWII owing in part to residential development, uncertain harvests and availability of migrant farm workers
Cherry
This 1945 movie features a clueless Barbara Stanwyck hosting a returning WWII veteran to a traditional Christmas holiday dinner at her fictitious northeastern farm
Christmas in Connecticut
Name one invasive species that has been found along the drive?
Garlic mustard, Phragmites, Japanese Knotweed and Wild Parsnip
Upon 1962 founding, it’s stated objective was ”to preserve the high character and hence value of all property…”
Glidden Drive Association
These Glidden Drive Celebrities have just made a recording of a few of their favorite original songs - "Let's get together", "Happily Every After", and "Something to Believe in".
The Gliddiots Too - Danny and Paula
Lake Michigan water levels have been measured since the 1860's. What two years were water levels at their highest since 1950?
1986 and 2020
Alastair Sim gave the most celebrated performance of this character in the classic 1951 holiday production
Ebenezer Scrooge