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  • Home
  • 2024-25 Speaker Series
  • NEIGH. PLAN
  • "WALK" Urban Nature Route
    • "WALK" Urban Nature Route :: Kleinstuck Preserve
    • "WALK" Urban Nature Route :: Woods Lake Park
    • "WALK" Urban Nature Route :: Kensington (Lake) Park
    • "WALK" Urban Nature Route :: N. and S. Glen Park
    • "WALK" Urban Nature Route :: Canyon Park
    • "WALK" Urban Nature Route :: Hillside Park
    • "WALK" Urban Nature Route :: Asylum Lake Preserve
  • JOIN the Association
  • Contact Us
  • Neighborhood Issues
    • Traffic Calming
    • Natural Features Protection (NFP) Overlay
    • Glen Park
    • Deer
    • Imagine Kalamazoo 2025
    • Public Safety
    • Consumers Energy: Tree Cutting/Easements
    • Asylum Lk. - BTR2 Runoff
    • Vermeulen Property
    • Stadium Lighting
  • Association Information
  • Resource Links
  • BUSINESS MEMBERS - Resource Page
  • Governance
  • ODWNA Meeting Minutes
    • ODWNA Meeting Minutes - 2024-25
    • ODWNA Meeting Minutes - 2023-24
    • ODWNA Meeting Minutes - 2022-23
    • ODWNA Meeting Minutes - 2021-22
    • ODWNA Meeting Minutes - 2020-21
    • ODWNA Meeting Minutes - 2019-20
    • ODWNA Meeting Minutes - 2018-19
    • ODWNA Meeting Minutes - 2017-18
    • ODWNA Meeting Minutes - 2016-17
    • ODWNA Meeting Minutes - 2015-16
    • ODWNA Meeting Minutes - 2014-15
    • ODWNA Meeting Minutes - 2013-14
    • ODWNA Meeting Minutes - 2012-13
    • ODWNA Meeting Minutes - 2011-12

"WALK" Urban Nature Route: 
Canyon Park​ (stop #5)

WALK Nature Route
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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 available for "adoption" 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

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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  
19th century Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Pottawatomi reservation
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