- Michigan is blessed with an abundance of beautiful rivers. This website serves as a guide to get you into a canoe or a kayak and into the middle of it ALL!
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Use us to direct you to the state's rivers and canoe/kayak liveries. Click on "Canoe Liveries".
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Click on "What's New/Doc's books" for information on Doc's paddling books and links to paddling videos, book reviews & interviews.
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"Recent River Runs" samples river trips taken in the last year, and might give you ideas about new paddling adventures to pursue.
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"River Tshirts" allows you to upgrade your paddling-wear with fun river-themed tshirts.
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Click on "Calendar/Doc's book tour schedule" for the view over the next 12 months of all things paddling-in-Michigan, and to see where Doc will be talkin' 'bout paddling next.
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"Free canoe 'n kayak trips" are awarded at the end of each stop on Doc's library/nature center tour - thanks to the generosity of Michigan & Wisconsin liveries.
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"River is the Cure for the Common Day Challenge" - would you paddle 20 rivers for a tshirt? No. For the memories? Yes.
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Click on "Illustrations" for information on the man behind the illustrations in our books.
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"Paddling & Environmental groups" looking for groups to paddle with? interested in helping to keep our waters pristine? Look no further.
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"Barothy Lodge unique riverside lodging" how soon can we go?
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Contact us at
weekendcanoeingmi@gmail.com, Doc Fletcher & Maggie Meeker, proprietors. Click on
"Contact Us" with (1) any questions or comments about our site or paddling Michigan in general and (2) with information of a livery opening, closing, or a if a livery's info has changed.
