Lane's Landing Long Ago

July 31 Email:

Ric, this is a picture of the east side of Lanes..  I think it is from the late 1980's.  - Charlie DeWitt

Charlie, thanks!  That is very interesting.  

Charlie's picture looks basically north on the eastern half of the Lane's Landing marsh.  The entrance road westward from the outer gate at Maple Island Road and Mosquito Creek are below the airplane and not in this image.  Notice the inner gate parking lot at the lower left, the walking trail along the left side of the image heading north to the "Prothonotary Woods" (and eventually to the river, but not visible).  The line of trees along the bottom of the photo grows atop the north ridge of the plateau that borders the north side of the entrance road.     

By the late 1980's I'd been with the club about ten years so would have walked Lane's Landing a number of times, but I have no recollection of the little east-west loop road in the lower left corner.  Notice also that the DNR had not yet built the four "U-Ponds" on the marsh (two left of the trail, two right of the trail).

- Ric