Boardman River
The Boardman River is located in Grand Traverse and Kalkaska Counties in Northwest Michigan and includes 160 miles of river and tributary streams. There are a total of 287-square miles in the watershed, producing one-third of the water volume of Grand Traverse Bay in Traverse City and draining 182,800 acres of land. An estimated 2 million user days are logged on the Boardman River annually for recreation purposes. Many of these visitors come to the river to fish since the river is one of the top ten trout streams in Michigan and 36 river miles are designated as Blue Ribbon river sections.
