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How to get to Portage Creek, Michigan

MDNR's access file puts 1 public site on Portage Creek — 1 walk-in site, spread over Kalamazoo. 12 blocks of public land touch the river, which is where you can stand without asking — 1,446 acres between them, counting each unit whole rather than the part beside the water. The nearest town we map is Kentwood, 43.5 miles from the river's midpoint in a straight line, with the water south of the town.

Map of Portage Creek Open Portage Creek on the map See Portage Creek on the live map → Every reach coloured by water temperature, with the public land and access points along it.

Nearest towns

TownDistanceDirection to the river
Kentwood43.5 misouth
Wyoming46.8 misouth
Grandville47.0 misouth
Lowell49.6 misouth

Straight-line distance from the river's midpoint, and the direction you would travel from the town to reach it. The roads are not mapped here, so there is no drive time — a travel time nobody measured is the kind of number that gets somebody lost.

Public access sites

SiteTypeRiver mileCounty
Portage Creek Celery Flats walk in 7.8 Kalamazoo

1 walk-in, 0 launches, from MDNR's own access file. River mile is measured up from the mouth along this river's drawn axis.

Public land on the water

Ownership from PAD-US as the state publishes it. Where a block has its own page, the name links to it.

More about Portage Creek

Portage Creek — live water temperature, regulations and access

Getting to nearby rivers