Lansing Area Parks, Trails and Nature

A new thread to replace the lost parks thread...

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  • City of Lansing has draft 2026-2030 Parks Master Plan out for review:
    https://content.civicplus.com/api/assets/7561d46b-8bdd-4928-a815-e99aa3e74046?cache=1800

    After reading it, I'm not sure what's going on. The cover letter says 2026-2030 then says "submitted February 1, 2021", the Action Plan is also from the 2020 report. @citykid I know not your department, but any ideas?
  • edited October 29
    Came my way on Twitter, a graduate level class at MSU looking for community opinions about the Red Cedar River:
    https://msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2fZhacBc0DXmOj4?Q_CHL=qr
  • I filled it out. Anything to encourage more community-university-student engagement.
  • Fair amount of work on the park behind the Brody Complex (does it have a name)? Lots and lots of the brush trimmed. A few new picnic tables about. Pictured, MSU seems to be expanding (or repairing? was it already there?) the fence at the edge of their property.

    I do not know, but I wonder again if the park-i-fication is partly an attempt to make the area unappealing to would-be homeless campers, which have made it right to the doorstep of MSU now. Few places left where they can feel concealed.

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  • I think the homeless camping was a big part of why they are clearing these areas, plus it just looks so much better with all the underbrush and weeds gone. The woods next to Kalamazoo St. and beyond have been cleared and the forest looks healthier and inviting, rather than scary and overgrown. Whatever the reason, I'm glad they did it.
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