Paddling the Huron

The first weekend of May, my fiance' and two of our friends paddled the Huron River. We started just up river from Millford, MI and paddled to Huron Meadows metropark. The paddle overall was good but I probably won't do it again. We paddled through the lake at Millford and Ford Lake which was very difficult. We had to get permits for EVERYTHING. I understand permits to control access but the whole concept sucks in my opinion. It is just nickel and dimeing you to death. Just issue a permit for free and stop when too many people are there. Ok, I am done with that.

The sections of the river without the lakes were beautiful. We found out since construction was going on the 96 bridge that we couldn't go under it. We had to pay a livery to shuttle us around 96. After haggling the price down to $40 we were set. When we needed to shuttle, the livery arrived right away. However, they were very disorganized. We went to one place and our boats to the other. Our driver wasn't listening to us when we told him where we were supposed to go. Eventually we got back on the river.

Overall, the trip was fun. I probably wont do it again overnight because of the lakes, permits and general difficulty of planning the trip. Any day paddling is better than a day at work.