Exit 107 on I-43 is signed Belgium and Lake Church, and almost everyone who takes it is going to the beach. The drive from Belgium to Milwaukee runs about 35 miles straight down the interstate, and Sheboygan is 21 miles the other way, which puts this village almost exactly between them.
Milwaukee Mitchell International is 42 miles out. That is the whole orientation, and it is simpler than most of what is written about getting here.
Exit 107 is the only exit you need
East off the exit takes you to the state park in about a mile. West takes you into the village. That is it.
There are route descriptions online that send you around by Highway 57 and Highway 28 to reach the park. They work and they are longer, and at least one of them appears to have been assembled from forum posts rather than a map. Take the exit.
Parking
The village has a park and ride off Fredonia Avenue, near the village hall, which takes cars and semi-trucks including overnight, and has accessible spaces. The lot by the village hall is the obvious place to leave a vehicle if you are meeting people, car-sharing, or riding the trail rather than driving the park.
At the state park, parking is inside the gate and needs a state park admission sticker. On a July Saturday the main lot fills by late morning and an in-season shuttle runs down to the water.
Where Belgium actually is
The northernmost village in Ozaukee County, 2.15 square miles, 2,421 people at the 2020 census, on the Lake Michigan side of the county. Incorporated in 1922, settled by Luxembourgish farmers in the 1840s, and agricultural ever since.
Straight-line distances to the neighbours: Cedar Grove four and a half miles, Fredonia five and a half, Random Lake six, Port Washington just under eight, Saukville and Oostburg about nine, Cascade thirteen and a half on the edge of the Kettle Moraine, Grafton thirteen and Cedarburg fifteen and a half. Those are distances on a map rather than times on a road, which is the honest way to give them.
What is at the exit itself
More than most rural interstate exits and less than a service plaza. There is fuel, there is a fast-food option, and there is the village hotel, all within sight of the ramp.
What there is not, and this catches people, is anywhere to eat after three in the afternoon other than a bar. Plan accordingly if you are arriving late and hungry.
Getting around once you are here
The village is walkable end to end in about twenty minutes. Everything else needs a car, including the cheese shop six miles west and two of the four places to stay.
There is no public transport to Belgium worth planning around. There is, however, a 30-mile paved rail trail running north to south through the middle of the village, with two access points and a bike repair station at the Belgium end of the Interurban Trail that most riders never find.
If you are arriving by bike from the south, the run up from Port Washington is about eight miles and one of the flattest sections of the whole trail.
Coming from further away
From Chicago the run is up I-94 and then I-43 through Milwaukee, and Belgium is the far end of that. From Green Bay it is I-43 the whole way south, a little over an hour by the mile count.
Milwaukee Mitchell International is the airport at 42 miles. General Mitchell to this village is a straight interstate run with no turns worth describing, which makes Belgium an easy first or last night for anyone flying in and heading up the lake.
Where to stop first
If you have half a day, go east off the exit to the park. If you have a full one, do the park in the morning and the village after lunch, because the museum on Peter Thein Avenue keeps short hours and is closed Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday.
If you are staying, all of the four places to sleep here sit within a few miles of the exit.
And the case for stopping at all is in what is worth your time once you are here.
Frequently asked questions
Published May 11, 2026
