W hen I told people I was vacationing in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, I got a lot of raised eyebrows. Clearly, people in St. Louis aren’t aware of the vacation town along Lake Michigan, with one of the best resorts in the country and PGA-caliber golf courses.
Sheboygan, about an hour north of Milwaukee and a seven-hour drive from St. Louis, is home to Kohler Resort. You may recognize the name Kohler.
You’ll find it on kitchen sinks, faucets, baths and even toilets. In 1900, the Kohler Co. built a factory just outside of Sheboygan.
In 1978, the American Club there was placed on the National Register of Historic Places, and Herbert V. Kohler Jr. made the brilliant decision to turn the Tudor-style building into a luxury hotel.
I stayed at Kohler Resort in 2021 and was blown away by its luxury and attention to detail. My family actually counts that stay, in a Kohler cabin with its own lake, as one of our best vacations ever. We loved it so much we stayed pretty much to the cabin and resort, never venturing to the city of Sheboygan.
Sheboygan, the town On a trip this May, I realized what I’d missed in not going to Sheboygan, a town of about 50,000 incorporated in 1846. The downtown area is as quaint and adorable as many northern Midwest towns. Ice cream parlors, restaurants, boutiques, galleries and a fun board-game store line sidewalks that appear straight out of a postcard.
Even their library has an elaborate waterfall in front of it. Blue Harbor Resort (blueharborresort.com) is .