Fort Custer State Recreation Area

Fort Custer State Recreation Area is a 3,033 – section of land State Recreation Area situated between Battle Creek and Kalamazoo, Michigan. The zone highlights lakes, the Kalamazoo River, more than 25 miles of multi-utilize trails, second development oak barrens and dry-mesic southern woodlands. Fort Custer is a famous goal for chasing, mountain biking, outdoors, horseback riding, climbing, angling, and pooch mushing. The recreation center has built up an arrangement of trails covering most of the zone, intended for mountain biking/climbing and a different trail framework for horseback riding.

They encompass every one of the lakes: Eagle, Whitford, Lawler and Jackson. The trails additionally interface with an outdoors region neighboring Jackson Hole. In October 2008, a circle fairway in the Eagle Lake zone was finished. Fort Custer Recreation Area has a campground with 219 parcels. There is a camp office and little store. Kindling, ice, and some other accommodation things can be acquired. Two of those parcels are smaller than expected lodges. The parcels shift in measure, some sufficiently enormous for a tent, eating area and fire ring, while a few parts can oblige up to a 50-foot RV.

There are three effortlessly available lakes: Eagle Lake, Jackson Lake and Whitford-Lawler Lake. The Kalamazoo River likewise keeps running along the western of the recreation center. A few kinds of panfish found inside the territory including bluegill, pumpkinseed, redbreast sunfish and yellow roost. There are a couple of animal ieties that are looked for after as game fish, for example, the largemouth bass and smallmouth bass. There are additionally plentiful basic carp in Eagle Lake and the Kalamazoo River. During the winter ice fishers can frequently be seen on every one of the three lakes.