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Detroit Canal (did you know they have canals?)

Looking from the Canal nearest Afred Brush Ford Park
* not where you should park or try to launch

Cruising through reddit.com/r/Detroit one day and a post catches my eye.

ummmm, no I haven't. There's a canal system?

The thread goes on to post a bunch of theories about where to get in, how much to pay, and if you can in fact make it through to Marshall's Bar. Pretty unsatisfying. So I decided to change that.


After driving around the area aimlessly for about 20 minutes, I decided the best chance to put in was from Riverside-Lakewood East Park, or what is left of it. The park is pretty much closed off to the public with a concrete barrier blocking access to the larger part of the park. However, just over the bridge from Coriander Kitchen and Farm there is a neglected driveway into a parking lot for what little of the original footprint of the Riverside-Lakewood park remains. 


One of the connecting Canals that dead-end in Detroit

Looking inland along Alter Road

Juvenile Beaver Habitat along Alter Road

One of several low bridges crossing the canals

Onward to Marshalls Bar. Yes, you can reach it by boat, but it wasn't open when I arrived


A marina practically at Jefferson Ave suspiciously (no not really, just needed an adverb) far inland



Looking West toward Detroit Skyline at Sunset
Not the most stable platform for zoomed photography

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