Mark your calendars! The Gold Spike Trail Tour IV is currently being planned and organized for a Saturday, May 26, 2018 event date. The Gold Spike is an out and back, family friendly bicycle ride on the Fred Meijer Pioneer Trail and Musketawa Trail. Riders can choose any distance up to an including a 100K. […]

The Friends of the Musketawa Trail board had a major change at the beginning of this year. Longtime board president, Ed Holovka stepped down at the end of 2016 after 21+ years of leadership. Ed guided the board during the early stages of the Musketawa Trail development, through construction and renovation of railroad trestles (into […]

The Gold Spike Trail Tour III took place this past weekend (Saturday, May 28th) on the Fred Meijer Pioneer Trail and the Musketawa Trail. The weather cooperated and we had plenty of walk-up registrants. We ended up with (133) enthusiastic riders, which surpassed our 2014 numbers by (23). We heard lots of compliments about the […]

Starting Monday April 25th, there will be brush cutting along the Musketawa Trail in Ottawa County. Portions of the trail will be CLOSED while Ottawa County Parks and Recreation makes the trail safer for users. They will be cutting brush from Monday, April 25th through Friday, April 29th between the hours of 7:30AM and 3PM. […]