Where do you access the Grand River lake run?

Where to access the Grand River lake run

The run corridor The mouth Sixth Street Dam — the run stops here The piers — 41% The mouth — 9%

The pale water is where chinook were holding on 2026-09-30 — 50% of the run was still out on Lake Michigan, which this picture does not reach. That day's gauge and lake readings were measured. Drawn 30 September 2026, north up, and it is a map of the river rather than of the lake it runs from.

8 state boating access sites fall inside the Grand River corridor in MDNR's own record, 343 parking spaces between them — Pigeon Lake, Robinson and Riverside Park #3. The run is 42.2 miles long and splits into the pier at river mile 0.0–3.1, the mouth at river mile 3.1–13.2, the lower at river mile 13.2–33.8 and the upstream at river mile 33.8–42.2; the pier and the mouth are boat and breakwall water and the miles above them are waded. The upstream end is Sixth Street Dam, which is where the fish stop and where the water above holds resident trout instead. The nearest town we map is Grandville, 11.6 miles from the corridor's midpoint in a straight line, with the water north-west of the town.

42.2 corridor miles · Lake Michigan · windows curated from MDNR guidance · page built 30 September 2026

State access sites inside the corridor

From the MDNR Boating Access Sites record, filtered to this corridor's bounding box. A ramp is not a wade-in: these are where a boat and a car go, and the bank between them is a question for the public land layer on the live map.

Site	Type	Parking	Notes
Pigeon Lake	boat launchPigeon Lake	90	restroom · feeDnr-Prd
Robinson	boat launchGrand River	68	restroom · feeDnr-Prd
Riverside Park #3	boat launchGrand River	37	restroomMunicipal
Riverside Park #2	boat launchGrand River	36	Municipal
Bass River Recreation Area	boat launchGrand River	35	feeDnr-Prd
Bruce's Bayou West	boat launchBruce's Bayou	32	feeDnr-Prd
Petty's Bayou	boat launchSpring Lake	25	restroom · feeDnr-Prd
Grand River Park	boat launchGrand River	20	restroomCounty

Wade-in or boat, by zone

Pier — river mile 0.0–3.1 Breakwall and pier. Cast tackle and a long-handled net; no wading here.
Mouth — river mile 3.1–13.2 The harbour mouth and the first flat water. Boat and pier water, wadeable only where the river narrows above the turning basin.
Lower — river mile 13.2–33.8 The lower river — the holding water most of the run is caught in. Drift boat where it is wide enough, waded where it is not.
Upstream — river mile 33.8–42.2 Above the first holding water, up to the ceiling. Wading and bank fishing; too small or too shallow for most boats.

Zones are the corridor file's, cut on river mile. This site holds no wadeability survey, so the note beside each zone is what the zone is and not a promise about any particular bank.

The upstream end

Sixth Street Dam, at 42.9766, -85.6735. Above it the water holds resident trout rather than run fish, so it is the top of the fishery as well as the top of the corridor.

Nearest towns

Straight-line distance from the corridor's midpoint to the towns we map. The roads are not mapped here, so these are not drive times.

Grandville11.6 miles away — the water is north-west of it
Wyoming14.1 miles away — the water is west of it
Grand Rapids15.0 miles away — the water is west of it
Sparta17.2 miles away — the water is south-west of it

Nearby run rivers

The rest of the run

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