Family Adventures Outdoors

Overview The Rifle River Recreation Area occupies about 4500 acres just east of Rose city along its namesake river. This waterway itself obviously offers canoeing, kayaking, and tubing opportunities, but there are at least 10 other bodies of water within the park. This makes for an ideal fishing location and some nice swimming. There are numerous camping and lodging opportunities. This includes 80 sites at the modern Grousehaven campground, nearly 60 rustic sites at Devoe Lake, another two dozen at…

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Overview Lake Hudson Recreation Area is a semi-modern and fairly bare-bones 2800 acre state park that sits just north of the Ohio/Michigan border about an hour west of Toledo. There is a single campground with about 50 sites. The park also has a boat launch and day use area, which has a rentable pavilion. The main attractions here are fishing and hunting. However, the park has also been designated a dark sky preserve due to its location and lack of…

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