Welcome to East Lansing & Lansing, Michigan

The settlement of East Lansing began around 1847, the same year nearby Lansing was made the capital of the state of Michigan. Downtown East Lansing was an important junction of two major Native American trails: the Okemah Road, and the Park Lake Trail. By 1850, the Lansing and Howell Plank Road Company was established to connect a toll road to the Detroit and Howell Plank Road, improving travel between Detroit and Lansing, which cut right through what is now East Lansing. The toll road was finished in 1853, and included seven tollhouses between Lansing and Howell.

Michigan State University was founded in 1855 and established in what is now East Lansing in 1857. For the first four decades, the students and faculty lived almost entirely on the College campus. A few commuted from Lansing, and that number increased when a streetcar line was built in the 1890s, but there were few places to live in the then-rural area immediately around the campus.

MSU's Division I sports teams are called the Spartans. They compete in the Big Ten Conference in all sports except ice hockey, in which the team is part of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association. MSU's football team won the Rose Bowl in 1954, 1956, and 1988 and boasts six national championships.Its men's basketball team won the NCAA National Championship in 1979 and 2000 while currently enjoying a streak of five Final Four appearances in the last past 11 seasons. MSU men's ice hockey has won national titles in 1966, 1986, and 2007.
 

Planing sports event road trip

USA Sports Travel is a collection of Sports Travel & Visitors Guide website directories to the USA sports cities that are home to a NCAA BCS college and/or Bowl Game, a Major League Pro Sports Team and/or a Major League Pro Sports Event.

USA Sports Travel's network of websites provides a sports fan information on what there is to do and see in the sports city they are going to visit for a sports event making every sports event road trip an enjoyable mini-vacation.

We provide the sports traveler information on the many accommodations, attractions, entertainment venues, bars & nightlife, food & dining areas, golf courses, shopping and retail outlets, outdoor and recreation areas, tours and transportation services , and many other sights and areas of interest in each targeted sports city.

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