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EXPERIENCE DETROIT
Attractions
& Self-Guided Tours
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 Huron River Drive
Tour Overview
The Huron River originates
in a marshy, heavily forested area northwest of Detroit and travels through five
counties on its 136-mile journey to the mouth of Lake Erie. It feeds dozens of lakes along the way and
is the lifeblood running through 13 MetroParks and
State Recreation Areas. This tour
features two of the larger lakes fed by the Huron, Ford Lake
and Belleville Lake, as well as four of the area's MetroParks.
Surprisingly, this part of the Detroit
area has remained below the radar of developers until recently when they
began to take notice of the wonderful natural amenities and affordable
land. This is a leisurely drive that
feels quite remote despite its proximity to Detroit.
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 Belleville
[A]
Vicinity of Main Street and Huron River Drive
Website
Shortly after making the
turn off Whittaker Road and heading east along Huron River Drive brings you
into view of Ford Lake, the first of two large reservoirs formed by dams
along the Huron. The City of Belleville Itself
encompasses a downtown situated along the southern edge of the second
reservoir, Belleville
Lake. Belleville
is the home to the Strawberry
Festival in June, drawing over 200,000 people annually. Oddly enough, this rural city on the
outskirts of Detroit
is also considered the birthplace of Techno
Music. In the late 1970s
and early 1980s, former high school friends Derrick May, Juan Atkins, and
Kevin Saunderson (known as The Belleville Three)
experimented with mixes and beats in basement studios to develop a new musical
form that today enjoys enormous popularity worldwide.
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 MetroParks [B]
17845 Savage Road, Belleville (Lower Huron MetroPark)
Website
The Huron-Clinton MetroParks provide a 24,000-acre Greenbelt around the Detroit
metropolitan area along the Huron and Clinton Rivers. This section of Huron River Drive encompasses the Lower
Huron, Willow,
Oakwoods, and Lake Erie Metroparks
which offer a huge multitude of outdoor activities. At the far end of Belleville Lake,
we recommend turning onto Metro
Parkway which will take you on a more scenic
route through Lower Huron MetroPark (you will pick
up Huron River Drive
again at the south end of the park). A
fee is required to enter the park, but the pass will grant you access to the
other three parks on the tour.
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 New
Boston, Flat Rock, & Rockwood [C-E]
New Boston: Vicinity of Huron River Drive and Hannan Road
(Website)
Flat Rock: Vicinity of Huron River Drive
and Telegraph Road
(Website)
Rockwood: Vicinity of Huron
River Drive and Church Street (Website)
At the south tip of Lower Huron MetroPark is
charming little New Boston. If you
didn't know any better, you'd swear you were in the middle of the
country. Amazingly, New Boston is only
a few miles from Detroit
Metropolitan Wayne
County Airport. Further southwest is Flat Rock, a quiet but
rapidly growing community best known for its Flat Rock Speedway. The southernmost city in Wayne County is
Rockwood, located adjacent to both Lake Erie MetroPark
and Pointe Mouillee State Game Area which are known
for great fishing and boating.
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Tour
Map
Number of Destinations: 5
Distance: 30
miles
Overall Tour Time:
1/2 to 1 full day
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Related
Tours
Downriver
Detroit Music
Seasonal
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Resources
& Links
Huron-Clinton MetroParks
Yankee
Air Museum at Willow Run Airport
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