Category: Field-Notes

Moore’s Park Revisited | Riverside Park Returned to Moore’s Park to investigate the upstream launch capability from the dam. It is possible albeit slightly challenging as there is no actual kayak launch (like there is downstream) and it is pretty overgrown. From there I walked the upstream route to see if there is a viable…

Sweeney’s Landing | Cherry Hill Park After getting my hair cut, I went to Sweeney’s Landing. The only thing to say about Sweeney’s Landing is that it exists and it has a kayak launch (and a boat launch for some reason). I would be concerned about leaving a vehicle there for an extended period of…

Moore’s Park / Lansing River Trail (Willbro Beach Kayak Landing) First off, silly me for completely forgetting about Willbro Beach landing (didn’t know the name) in front of the Lansing Shuffle downtown. Which is a perfect stop on the route and is also a kayak service location. Started out in Moore’s park. The kayak access…

Jaycee Park / Island Park Investigated Jaycee Park and was testing out new hiking shoes. So there has been some upgrades to this park and is actually a really nice park. The boat launch is a little overkill as the grand river isn’t really deep enough to support most trailer-ed boats. but the Kayak launch…

Field research on this day was in support of the Kayak project. In particular investigations took place of Dietrich Park, Turner Dodge Park, Burchard Park and the space next to Olympic Broil (across the river from Dietrich Park). Dietrich Park What was discovered with Dietrich Park is that it is small and there is only…