"WALK" Urban Nature Route: 
Canyon Park​ (stop #5)
Did You Know?
  • This 1.2-acre neighborhood “mini-park” has an elevation change from Kensington Dr. to Wellington Rd. the same as North Glen Park – 44 feet!
  • This park is another example of land carved by the glaciers as they retreated.
  • This “mini-park” is also being cared for through Kzoo Parks Adopt a Park Program.

Fast Fact
There are 450 species of birds in Michigan!  Here are some great tips for birdwatching in our neighborhood, and a list of birds you may see
OF SPECIAL NOTE:
The WALK Urban Nature Route mirrors some of the grounds of the Potawatomi Tribe Reservation.
  • When European settlers arrived in the area that was to become Kalamazoo County, the land was occupied by the Potawatomi Tribe, a branch of the greater Algonquin Peoples.
 
  • The Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians (Gun Lake Tribe) is part of the historic Three Fires Confederacy, an alliance of the Pottawatomi (Bodewadmi), Ottawa (Odawa) and Chippewa (Ojibwe). Tribal Nations in the Great Lakes region are also known as the Neshnibek, or original people. Learn more about the history of the Gun Lake Tribe HERE. 
 
  • The original boundaries of the 19th century Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Pottawatomi reservation covers nine square miles.  Below is a map of the reservation along with a rough guide as to where present-day roads follow its borders