Skiing & Snowboarding

Charlton Park Village & Museum

2545 South Charlton Park Road 
Hastings, MI 49058
(616) 945-3775

125 acres of natural, rolling terrain for hiking trails in the spring, summer, fall with X-country skiing trails in the winter, front gates close in the winter at 5 pm, for a year round facility.

Local History

In 1836, Eurotas P. Hastings, president of the Bank of Michigan, sold his holdings here to a Marshall firm of promoters on the strength of the promise of the county commissioners to make this site the county seat.  That fall, the company built a sawmill and a grist mill to attract settlers.  Slocum H. Bunker, the first settler, built the first house in 1836.  The village became the county seat about 1841.  Incorporated as a village in 1855 and as a city in 1871.

Informational excerpts from Michigan Place Names, by Walter Romig, L.H.D.

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