We decided to join our friend Gizmo and his buddy Finn for Parks Day. A day designed to celebrate and share the beauty of your favorite park.
One of our favorite parks is Island Lake Recreation Area,
this is just one of our many state parks here in Michigan. This park is huge, with one of the nation’s safest shooting ranges. The park has great canoeing, volley ball courts, picnic shelters, swimming and cabins to rent. Offering a 4,000-acre park with an “up north” feel, with a mixture of open brush land to mature hardwood forest, with some pockets of open meadows mixed in. Island Lake is the only balloon port in the state park system. Balloons usually take off in the early morning or late evening, depending on the wind and weather. (Michigan DNR)
I like this place because not only is it beautiful, 
there are many out of the way places for me to get Titan out to do some training when I take him with me to work.
After sitting in my van Titan loves to get out and stretch is legs!
These are a few shots I took last year of the beautiful fall colors…
So that’s just a glimpse of the beauty one of our favorite parks has to offer!
Where do you like to go with your furry friend for a day of fun?
This is the Park Day blog hop hosted by Gizmo and Finn. Visit Gizmo to add your link.
Misty Shores Chesapeakes 
Great Park Day visit!!! Your park is so beautiful, and what a great place to run! Thanks for joining our Park Day celebration!
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Thanks Finn, when I read 2browndawgs and Jodi’s post I just had to check it out, what a great idea
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That’s a super Park :o) I saw a lot of sticks on this pile… how interesting:o)
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Thanks Easy! I bet you could have a whole lot of fun with a stick pile like that 😉
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What a beautiful place. No wonder you like going there with lots of stuff to do.
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🙂
Did you do your post using live writer today?
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Great fun in the park. I love fall foliage. My girls would have an incredible time in such a large place. Thanks for sharing.
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You are welcome!! The pictures don’t even begin to show just how beautiful this park is, and it is very large! One day I am going to drive all the way to the end 🙂
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What an absolutely stunning place and great pictures you’ve got there. Silly me, I’ve been so busy I completely forgot about the Park Day stuff.
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I would have not known about it if 2browndawgs hadn’t posted on it 😉 It is a great park.
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That looks like a great park! Do they have a designated dog training area to train off lead? Around here they have cracked down and are writing tickets for dogs off lead. We have stopped all training in state parks unless they have a designated dog training area. That is a big reason we bough the Omega membership.
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I searched and searched but could not find the guidelines for dogs, so I made sure I drove to an isolated area before getting out, we ran into some hunters one day. This year I am going to ask someone so I don’t get in any trouble, might be sorry when I ask but it is better than a ticket. Although I did not see anyone other than the guy at the front gate. I know years ago you were allowed to take your dog to the designated area on the beach to let them swim.
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Beautiful Captures:)
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Thank you so much!
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That’s a very pretty park and the cabins intrigue me. Do they allow dogs in the cabins?
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Thanks Jodi!
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That’s a beautiful park…We don’t have the gorgeous Fall colors that you get so thanks for sharing…Giz and I love to head off the main trails and find the less used areas of parks where he can really run & play…Thanks so much for joining us in Park Day! Hope to see you at Park Day 2.0
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Looking forward to Park Day 2.0 🙂
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