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Lansing River Trail and the Grand River

Lansing river trail is a gorgeous trail through Lansing connecting so many attractions in Lansing. The trail is almost 20 miles long, paved road.  It passes through Potter Parker zoo, Lansing Old town, Hawk Island, Lansing downtown and so many other such things. This weekend we decided to hit the trail near the Lansing city market and visit the Old town.
In most of the areas you walk through the side of grand river enjoying the trees, river and the freshness.The trail is very well marked too. How beautiful is it?
 




By around 3'o clock we decided to kayak the grand river. We walked back to Lansing city center and rented a tandem kayak. They took us to Moores park where we entered the water. This was the easiest stretch to kayak. We are supposed to paddle in the direction of flow of the Grand river. I think this was our second time ever, kayaking. I was confident since i had done it once, and was very excited about doing it again to get the hang of it. The entry point which we opted at the river was just directly after a dam and had a lil strong flow. As we started we struggled to keep our kayak out of the flow of the water and as we progressed the river became calm and we started enjoying it.
 


it took us almost 1:15 hours via grand river to reach back at Lansing city market. River was calm and except for the first few mins the experience was great. We watched many turtles,birds along the side of the river which sadly i couldn't capture. 


After the kayaking was over we visited the Lansing old town. The city is kept old with the treasures from old age. The stores you see would carry the fashion and trends from the 1900s with many antique stores along the street.
 

 

The Old town has its own portion of Grand river. We walked along the trail for sometime enjoying the nature. It has a fish ladder around the dam, which helps the fish swim from one side of the dam to other! The fish ladder is behind us in this pic, its basically a small diversion from the main river, to bypass the waterfall. 





We returned from Old town in an hour an started exploring the Lansing downtown. We walked past the Capitol building and rested beside the Grand River.

 









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