BRIGHT LIGHTS SUPPORT
Adopt a Light Pole
Help illuminate the Muskegon Luge Adventure Sports Park's hiking trails by adopting a light pole on the trails. As a Bright Lights Supporter, your donation helps us underwrite the operating cost of lighting and maintaining the trail system throughout the year so everyone can enjoy safe and fun hiking experiences.
Show your Support on the Trails
You can adopt a light pole on the hiking trails for $100. Pick your favorite spot on the trails to display a name placard on the light post.
A one-time $100 donation makes you a Bright Lights Supporter, represented by the silver placard. Your name placard will be displayed for 365 days.
An annual recurring donation of $100 means you're a Visionary Supporter, represented with the gold placard.
Become a Supporter Today
Hiking Trails Built by the Community, For the Community
The Muskegon Sports Council has a lease partnership with the Michigan DNR, allowing our organization to use approximately 300 acres of the Northwest quadrant of Muskegon State Park. As part of the partnership we help maintain and provide improvements to the trails. For nearly 40 years, donors and community organizations have assisted us with improvements to the trails such as lighting, resurfacing for accessibility, signage and more.
- 1933-1934 Trails are designed and built by the Civilian Conservation Corps
- 1984 Muskegon Sports Council is established and lease partnership with DNR put into place.
- 1984-1985 Community donations and State appropriation fund the lighted trail system. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers & GTE employees volunteer time to install 30+ miles of underground wiring and 200 lights.
- 1990s - 2000s local electricians from GE Aviation help maintain the lights
- 2009 Kellog Foundation grant provides trail resurfacing for accesibility
- 2017 Howmet supports a complete LED light upgrade
- 2021 Michigan Cares for Tourism volunteers install new light pole number signs
- 2024 DNR and Run Muskegon fund new trail signage
Accessible Hiking for Everyone
Our trails are accessible to everyone, including people with disabilities. The packed dolomite surface on the trails make it possible for wheel chairs to roll over without obstruction. Thanks to a donation to Muskegon State Park from Kali's Cure for Paralysis Foundation, Inc., we can provide an all-terrain track chair that allows people to hike and explore in the snow, sand or trails. Our modified UTV has a pull-down ramp and wheel chair tie-downs and can be used to transport people in wheel chairs to the top of our luge and zip line dune.
Get to Know the Hiking Trails
There are four different designated trail systems within the lease area of the Sports Park. Most of these trails (not including Spencer's Advanced Trail) have a packed gravel surface making them accessible for strollers and wheel chairs. Trails are open until 10pm and there is no fee to hike the trails in the spring, summer and fall. In the winter time trails are groomed for cross country skiing.
White Night Trail
- 1.6 miles
- Easy, few small hills
- 30-45 minutes to complete
- Wheelchair accessible
Pete's Path
- 2.5 miles
- Easy, few small hills
- 55 - 70 minutes to complete
- Wheelchair accessible
Lost Lake Trail
- 3.1 miles
- Moderate - some hills with option to bypass
- 60-70 minutes to complete
- Mostly wheelchair accessible with hill bypass at intersection #6
Spencer's Advanced Trail
- .75 miles
- Advanced, winding with steep grade
- 20-30 minutes to complete
- Not wheelchair accessible
See More Ways To Support
Our Park relies on the support of the community. We have several ways you can get involved and support our organization's mission to provide unique, acessible outdoor recreation.