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We returned to the Indian again this year, having had such a great time last year. The river was running a little lower than same time last year, but I was able to do three great paddles. The first, putting in at the lovely Widewaters Campground was a pretty simple down stream paddle. Fallen logs are chainsawed by the rangers every year, to allow a boat to pass through,  but there was still quite a deal of maneuvering around the fallen logs.  It was a two hour paddle to Tommy Page Bridge. There is a well mapped trail along this river. It is available at the Munising Forest Info Center as well as several of the put in points. 

The second paddle was much more challenging. Fast running  water with a few riffles and class 1 rapids, but many, many obstacles  Again there had been some chainsawing, but there were two made portages and many times I had either muscle over logs or  get out a clamber across logs  blocking the way. It was hard work, but made for a much more physical and interesting paddle. Although it was a shorter distance, it took me 1.75 hours. 

No photos of this paddle as it was too dicey to pack the camera. 

I had one more short paddle, going upstream from the campground. There is a fairly large lake (Fish Lake) and some fun paddle beyond that.

Campground on island in Fish Lake