Muskegon River: Henning Park Access
This section of the Muskegon River is easily accessible from Newaygo. Visitors will float through the city and past forested slopes along the river.
This section of the Muskegon River is easily accessible from Newaygo. Visitors will float through the city and past forested slopes along the river.
The Muskegon River is the second longest river in Michigan and is known for its good fishery which includes the threatened Lake Sturgeon. Several tributary streams and wetlands supply high quality cold water to the Muskegon River in this section.
Downstream of the “flies only” fishing section, this part of the river is heavily forested as it passes through several hundred acres of U.S. Forest Service land and non-developed private land.
Fishing is the biggest draw to this section of the Pere Marquette River that features high quality waters and scenic, wooded slopes.
Large cedar and hemlock trees line much of this stretch of river. Keep an eye out for turtles and bald eagles–wildlife is abundant here.
This section of the river maintains much of its forest integrity, even though it is mostly privately owned. This portion is deeper than upstream, though there are areas that are still wade-able along the edges.
This area features impressive forested slopes and overlooks, and large emergent wetland areas. It is a good birding area because of the more open areas.
A paved trail leads through former pastures, now being restored to natural habitats, down to the Grand River where there is a canoe landing and river overlook. Looping unpaved trails let visitors explore the lowland forest that shades the river in this Ada Township