Travel to Michigan

Canoeing Michigan Rivers: A Comprehensive Guide to 45 Rivers

Format: Paperback
Author: Jerry Dennis
ReleaseDate: 15 April, 2005
Publisher: Thunder Bay Press (MI)
Rating:

Great overview
I've gone down a few of the rivers in the lower peninsula and this book was an impeccable guide. The people who wrote this book definately did their homework. Now, Lower Peninsula rivers aren't exactly the meanest or fastest, but there are enough twists and turns to keep your attention and to want a book like this aroud, if only to know what's all out there. There was also good attention paid to campsites and drop off points gone through in great detail. I once tried a dropoff point agains the recommendation of this book and paid for it dearly.

The problem about getting hardcovers of natural wonders like rivers is that all too often the data becomes obsolete after a couple years. For this case is seems that it's still pretty to date, but check on the web anyways just in case conditions change.

Great Resourse Guide
Both books are great, but the boys preferred this book over Paddling Michigan. This book, Canoeing Michigan Rivers, and Paddling Michigan by Kevin Hillstrom and Laurie Collier Hillstrom were both purchased by our Scout Troop to aid in the planning and execution of our Scouting Outing Canoe trips.

This book has to all to plan an outing, the maps, river description, challenge, a "standard time factor" and excellent commentary on the expectation of the canoe trip. The Senior Patrol Leader Council, the event planning committee of Boy Scouts aged 14-17, was able to take this book and properly plan, organize and execute several canoe trips. It had all the information needed to make the proper decisions without having to go visit the river first, or rely on comments from someone who knows someone who said that access to the river was available from County Road 48.

The Scout Troop now uses this book as a first resourse for planning canoe trips in Michigan and has greatly aided the exploration of the rivers of Michigan with confidence!.

canoeing michigan rivers
If you want to paddle michigan rivers - get this book first! It is great reading and has an abundant amount of information.

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