Lansing River Trail number of special events, including the "Common Ground Music Festival", the "Annual Mayor's Walk", "Michigan Run", the "Capital City River Run" and a number of other city-sponsored activities. The trail is currently being extended into Delhi Township to connect with an existing trail in Holt, as well as east to west across south Lansing. Lansing River Trail Lansing River Trail is a multiple use, non-motorized trail approximately long. It runs along the Grand River and the Red Cedar River between Michigan State University and Dietrich Park in northern Lansing. The trail has a western extension that begins where it splits
Lansing, Michigan academic square. 16 men bought plots in the nonexistent city, and upon reaching the area later that year found they had been scammed. Many in the group too disappointed to stay ended up settling around what is now metropolitan Lansing. Those who stayed quickly renamed the area "Lansing Township" in honor of their home village in New York. The settlement of fewer than 20 people would remain dormant until the winter of 1847 when the state constitution required the capital be moved from Detroit to a more central and safer location in the state's interior; many were concerned about Detroit's