Canoeing the Grand River
by Sherri Powers
It’s succulent with overgrown trees and full of wildlife. A appointment you could paddle down with a canoe or kayak and see fish, turtles, charitable blue heron, hawks and beavers. The Grand River runs open through the heart of the Greater Lansing section, yet people rarely take advantage of this spot of nature in their own neighborhood.
“It’s kind of a recondite little secret in Lansing. Within a mile you brook like you’re in another time, secluded and there’s constitution all around you,” Trey Rouss said. Rouss, 43, a chief at Summit Sports in East Lansing, kayaks on the river three or four times a week. “Almost never do I see anyone out there.”
Instead of using the Grand River, people will herd four hours up north to go kayaking and canoeing on a Saturday and end up thrust aside to shoulder with other kayaks and canoes, Jay Hanks said. Meanwhile, the Grand River is to all intents empty.
Hanks, 50, is the president of the Lansing Row and Row Club, a non-profit social network that promotes and develops child-powered paddling in the Lansing breadth.
“I like the quietness and sense of loneliness the Grand can give me,” Hanks said. “The intent is amazing. People just don’t invent of it as a resource.”
Hanks hopes that, with rising gas prices, people will start to take gain of the Grand and other rivers in the Lansing area.
“There are scores of places I’ve never even seen on the Grand and they are only a half mile away,” Hanks said.
The river has several distinguishable streams, pockets, islands and other places to examine, John Hay said. There are also larger islands on the river finished Waverly Bridge.
Hay, 50, has been kayaking on the Grand River for six years with his sibling.
“The river is very easy to navigate,” Hay said. “You can end and fish just about anywhere. There are not many logs and the river is never that arcane”
The river is about three feet deep anywhere you belief in it, Hay said. “This keeps motor boats out of your way on the river, too,”
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