Cross Country Skiing, Hiking Trails & Luge:
The sports lodge is the focal point of activity for the Muskegon Winter Sports Complex located in the Muskegon State Park. What began as a dream in 1983, became a reality in 1990. The sports lodge is typical of the long history of Muskegon area citizens being involved in supporting the park. A few Muskegon area people conceived the idea of building a luge and bobsled run that would serve as an Olympic training site. Energies were focus on the luge run. The idea grew and gained community support and political support from local legislators who worked towards making state funding available for the construction and operation of the luge. By 1984, community support grew into a love affair with the luge, where countless hours of labor, construction materials and equipment were donated to see the project completed. During construction of the luge, another idea surfaced; that of creating lighted cross-country ski trails.
Biking, Walking and Snowmobile Trails:
Muskegon County is home to 3 trails; Muskegon Lakeshore trail, The Musketawa Trail on the east side of the county and the Hart-Montague Trail State Park in the northern section of Muskegon County. The 10 mile long Muskegon Lakeshore Trail is designed to provide users many different sceneries including Lake MI, Muskegon Lake, dunes, parks, and the City of Muskegon. You can easily reach portions of the trail from the Lake Express Car Ferry terminal. By following trail to the west you will arrive at Pere Marquette Park/ Lake Michigan. The trail loops around the park and includes great views of Lake Michigan. By traveling east from the Ferry terminal, you can follow the trail along the lakeshore of Muskegon Lake which offers picturesque view all the way across the lake to North Muskegon.
Muskegon County Museum:
Muskegon County Museum, located at 4th and Clay Ave in downtown Muskegon. Free admission, 'marks of the trade' highlighting log marks and logging hammers used by Muskegon county lumbermen to mark their logs. Other exhibits are a history of Muskegon County in 'Coming to the Lakes', a sawmill, Great Lake schooner, a life sized mastodon and more. The food webs gallery with five habitats and animals and plants found there. 'Body Works' and the 'Science Center' are hands on exhibits. Also highlighted are weather, rocks, minerals, dinosaurs and lumbering. The Museum operates the Muskegon Mercantile, which has been relocated to inside the Museum with gift items and pieces for Victorian tea time, the Buster Keaton exhibit and historic photographs of downtown Muskegon.
