Tourism in metropolitan Detroit
Market overview
Tourists can ride in a Model T in Greenfield Village at The Henry Ford, a National Historic Landmark.
The metropolitan region’s tourism industry depends on drawing large crowds to positively impact the local economy. As the world’s traditional automotive center, the city hosts the annual North American International Auto Show in January, a multi-day event. Other major multi-day events which reflect the region’s culture such as the Motown Winter Blast and the Windsor-Detroit International Freedom Festival can draw super sized-crowds of hundreds of thousands to over three million people. In 2006, the four-day Motown Winter Blast drew a cold weather crowd of about 1.2 million people to Campus Martius Park area downtown. Metro Detroit is one of thirteen U.S. cities with teams from four major sports.
Besides casino gaming, the region’s leading attraction is The Henry Ford, America’s largest indoor-outdoor museum complex, a museum entertainment complex with an IMAX theater next to the Automotive Hall of Fame in Dearborn. The Detroit Institute of Arts in the cultural center downtown is another leading attraction. The Detroit Festival of the Arts in Midtown draws about 350,000 people. The Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak has the nation’s largest polar bear exhibit, the Arctic Ring of Wildlife. The zoo has a train which encircles the park. Together, The Henry Ford, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Zoo attract about 2,500,000 visitors annually.
Greektown in Detroit
Another automotive attraction cataloging the history of the industry is the Chrysler Museum in Auburn Hills. Historic tours of the mansions of the auto barons such as Meadowbrook Hall in Rochester Hills, Edsel and Eleanor Ford House in Grosse Pointe, Henry Ford’s Fair Lane Estate in Dearborn, and the Lawrence Fisher Mansion in Detroit are available.
The city’s Greektown is a busy entertainment district. The city has evolved into a center for the major casino resorts – MGM Grand Detroit, Motor City Casino, Greektown Casino, and Caesars Windsor just across the river in Canada. The metropolitan region’s potential to attract super-sized crowds should not be underestimated. Just across the river, Caesars Windsor attracts about six million visitors annually. More than fifteen million people cross the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel annually. An estimated 46 million people live within a 300 mile (480 km) radius of Metro Detroit. Since 2000, the city has seen continuous annual increases in tax revenues from its casinos; the city collected and estimated $178,250,000 in casino taxes alone for 2007, with the casino resorts open in 2008. The Detroit International Riverfront hosts an events including the Windsor-Detroit International Freedom Festival in late June with one of the nation’s largest displays of fireworks and the Electronic Music Festival on Memorial Day weekend. The New York Times listed Detroit among its 53 world travel destinations for 2008.
Movie studios in the metro area help establish the state as a legitimate contender in the 12-month-a-year film business. Detroit Center Studios (2009) will debut at the downtown building which was the start-up casino for MGM Grand to create digital animation and visual effects. Motown Motion Picture Studios (2009) with 600,000 square feet will produce movies at the Pontiac Centerpoint Business Campus for a film industry expected to employ over 4,000 people in the metro area.
Hospitality infrastructure
Cruise ships, hotels, and resorts
Detroit Princess Riverboat charter hosts regularly scheduled public cruises.
MGM Grand Detroit.
The Dock of Detroit on Hart Plaza near the Renaissance Center receives major cruise ships and tall ships. The Great Lakes Cruising Coalition supports passenger ship cruises through a joint U.S-Canadian venture to Great Lakes Ports and the St. Lawrence Seaway. Tri-Centennial State Park and Harbor in downtown Detroit offers public docks for boaters.
Besides its casino resorts, the Detroit area has tens of thousands of hotel rooms. The city’s hospitality industry has hosted many major conventions as well as sporting events. The Marriott corporation and Starwood Hotels (Westin and Sheraton) have a significant presence in the region. The area has many luxury hotels and resorts including the historic Westin Book Cadillac Hotel which was restored in 2008. Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center and the Omni Detroit Hotel at Riverplace have waterfront views. An example of investment in the city’s historic downtown area is the restored Inn at Ferry Street, a collection of Victorian bed and breakfasts in the cultural district near the Detroit Institute of Arts. Downtown Detroit has about 5,000 hotel rooms, with 4,000 in walking distance of its Cobo Hall convention center. The suburb of Novi has about 5,300 hotels rooms within a 10-mile radius and the suburb of Pontiac has about 5,800 within a 10-mile radius.
In 2003, General Motors completed a $500 million redevelopment of the Renaissance Center as its world headquarters. The east riverfront promenade development was planned at and additional $559 million, including $135 million from GM and $50 million from the Kresge Fundation. The International Riverfront is linked by the River Walk, a promenade along connecting the cruise ship dock on Hart Plaza to a series of parks, restaurants, Asian Village, retail shops, and other venues from the Marriott at the Renaissance Center to the Omni Hotel at Riverplace on the historic Stroh’s riverplace site. Compuware CEO Peter Karmanos would played in the financing to reconstruct the city’s historic restoration of Campus Martius Park which now hosts events such as the Motown Winter Blast in January attracting large crowds.
Shopping and restaurants
See also: List of shopping malls in Michigan
Somerset Collection South adjacent to the Somerset Inn in Troy.
Several restaurant clusters with shopping districts and malls may be found throughout the region including Greektown, downtown, the Renaissance Center, Somerset Collection mall, Troy, Grosse Pointe, Dearborn, Rochester, Rochester Hills, Livonia, Ann Arbor and other suburbs.
Metropolitan Detroit has a variety of major shopping venues such as the upscale Somerset Collection mall in Troy which mall developers consider to be among the nation’s top privately held mall properties with 2004 annual sales of about $600 million and sales per square foot at $620 compared to the national average of $341. The Mall at Partridge Creek is an upscale outdoor lifestyle center located in Clinton Township. Other notable shopping malls in Detroit include Lakeside Mall in Sterling Heights, Laurel Park Place in Livonia, Twelve Oaks Mall in Novi, which was expanded in 2007 to include Nordstrom; and Great Lakes Crossing, an outlet mall in Auburn Hills which is among the largest malls in Michigan.
A new shopping center, the Shoppes at Gateway Park, is slated for construction in 2009-10 within Detroit’s city limits. When complete, the outdoor mall will provide the city of Detroit proper with its first full-line department store in nearly a decade.
The Eastern Market Historic District, a farmer’s distribution center in downtown Detroit, is the largest open-air flowerbed market in the United States and has more than 150 foods and specialty businesses. On Saturdays, about 45,000 people shop the city’s historic Eastern Market.
Political impact
The city’s mayor in the 1990s, Dennis Archer, also a former Michigan Supreme Court Justice, supported a plan which resulted in new casino resorts as a catalyst for urban development in Detroit. Initially, Archer’s plan was for a casino cluster along the east riverfront. In April 2005, after an eight-year legal battle over the bidding process, the courts cleared the way for the City of Detroit to permit its temporary casinos to build all new casino resorts, to open in late 2007. The settlement was further complicated by MGM’s acquisition of Mandalay Bay, then owner of the Motor City Casino. Upon acceptance of the settlement, Detroit entrepreneur Marion Illitch exercised her option to purchase Motor City Casino, outbidding other partners. The plan for the casino resort locations changed as the city decided instead to have the a promenade of parks along the International Riverfront to spur residential development, thus freeing the casinos to build in other areas of downtown. Detroit is the largest American city and metropolitan region to offer casino resorts.
2008 Tour De Troit.
There are $1.3 billion in new construction projects downtown. In 2007, complementing the MGM Grand Detroit, DTE Energy announced a $50 million transformation of the area around its downtown headquarters into an urban oasis with parks, walkways, and a reflecting pool. Completion of the MGM Grand Detroit resort in 2007 has opened new prospects for future development downtown with the west riverfront area and the area from MGM Grand Detroit to the Michigan Central Station. The question of how to finance a new convention facility to accommodate the expanding needs of the North American International Auto Show generated media attention and speculation with Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson’s proposal for a fourth casino resort to anchor the convention center following the example of the Las Vegas Sands Expo convention center which would need approval from a state wide referendum. Governor Jennifer Granholm ultimately signed legislation on July 2, 2009 for a nearly $300 million expansion of Cobo Center; the plan calls for a 166,000 square foot addition. The legislation created a five-member board, appointed by the governor, the City of Detroit, and Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties to oversee the operation of the center with the city retaining ownership. The project, which also calls for the demolition of Cobo Arena in order to expand the center began October 1, 2009. Redevelopment design concepts include the possible addition of glass walls to connect the complex with the waterfront.
Detroit’s geographic proximity to Windsor, Ontario provides for spectacular views and nightlife, along with Ontario’s 19-and-older drinking age. The political clout of beer-drinking consumers has grown in the state, with politicians concerned about a backlash from the “beer vote” over a possible increase in the beer tax.
A strategy entitled Pure Michigan resulted in the State’s tourism website ranking as the busiest in the nation. Metro Detroit “urban destinations” such as The Henry Ford, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Detroit Zoo were also emphasized in the strategy. This led to support for proposals for increased funding in 2008 for the Travel Michigan budget from Detroit area legislators.
Cultural centers
Detroit Institute of Arts
The Museum of African American History in Detroit.
The Midtown and the New Center area are centered around Wayne State University and Henry Ford Hospital. Midtown attracts millions of visitors each year to its museums and cultural centers. Other significant cultural centers include those in Dearborn, Bloomfield Hills, Grosse Pointe, Rochester Hills, and Ann Arbor. The fortunes of region’s auto barons and business leaders continue to facilitate philanthropy for museums and cultural centers.
The Detroit Cultural Center Historic District contains the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Detroit Historical Museum, the Detroit Science Center, and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. The Detroit Public Library is part of Detroit’s Cultural Center Historic District listed in the National Register of Historic Places adjacent to Wayne State University campus and across the street from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Designed by Cass Gilbert, the Detroit Public Library (1921) was constructed with Vermont marble and serpentine Italian marble trim in an Italian Renaissance style. His son, Cass Gilbert, Jr. was a partner with Francis J. Keally in the design of the library’s additional wings added in 1963. Cass Gilbert also designed the United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C..
Detroit Institute of Arts
Entering the Detroit Institute of Arts’ hallway, visitors pass the armor collection of William Randolph Hearst. Through the entry way is a grand marble court lined along the upper and lower levels with Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry Murals, commissioned by Edsel Ford. The French-American architect Paul Philippe Cret designed the building. The museum is part of the city’s Cultural Center Historic District listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
The Institute is among the largest art museums in the United States and contains over 100 galleries. The museum houses the 1150-seat Detroit Film Theatre, also used to showcase famous collections. Officials at the DIA have ranked the American paintings collection third among museums in the United States. Works by American artists began to be collected immediately following the museum’s founding in 1883.
The collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts include ancient Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Mesopotamian, and Egyptian material, as well as a wide range of Islamic, African and Asian art of all media.
Entertainment
Theatre in Detroit is part of the Broadway theatre circuit. The Windsor-Detroit casino resorts have nightclubs, restaurants, and large performance centers for shows. Star performances in the city’s theatre district complement major events such as North American International Auto Show. There are a number of popular nightclubs including the Necto in Ann Arbor, the three-level St. Andrews Hall in Detroit, and the casino resorts.
Fox Theatre is a National Historic Landmark near Detroit’s Grand Circus.
Live music has been the dominant feature of Detroit’s nightlife since the late 1940s bringing the city worldwide attention. The metropolitan area has two of the top live music venues in the United States: DTE Energy Music Theatre and The Palace of Auburn Hills The Detroit Theatre District is the nation’s second largest after Manhattan’s Broadway. Major theaters include the Fox Theatre, Masonic Temple Theatre, the Detroit Opera House, and the Fisher Theatre. Detroit’s Orchestra Hall is the home of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. The city hosts several annual music events, including the Ford Detroit International Jazz Festival, the Electronic Music Festival, the Motor City Music Conference (MC2), the Urban Organic Music Conference, the Concert of Colors, and the hip-hop Summer Jamz music festival.
Events
CityFest in the New Center with Cadillac Place in the backdrop across from the Hotel St. Regis.
Fireworks at the Windsor-Detroit International Freedom Festival.
Major festivals and events
Timeline
North American International Auto Show
Cobo Hall – January.
Plymouth Ice Festival
Ice sculpture spectacular in January.
Motown Winter Blast
Campus Martius Park – January or February.
Detroit Music Awards
Held at The Fillmore Detroit Theatre in April.
Downriver Dream Cruise
Held in Southgate, Lincoln Park, Riverview, and Wyandotte.
Detroit Electronic Music Festival
Memorial Day weekend.
Civil War Remembrance
Held at The Henry Ford on Memorial Day.
Detroit Festival of the Arts
Midtown – early June.
Motor Muster
Held at The Henry Ford on Father’s Day weekend in June.
Detroit River Days
Detroit Riverfront- late June.
Windsor-Detroit International Freedom Festival
Last week of June.
Salute to America
Detroit Symphony Orchestra performs at The Henry Ford the four nights around on the Fourth of July.
CityFest sponsored by Comerica
Held in the New Center area around the Fourth of July.
Tall ships at the Dock of Detroit
Hart Plaza – summer.
Ann Arbor Art Fairs
Mid-July.
APBA Gold Cup
Detroit Thunderfest hydroplane races.
Meadowbrook Concours d’Elegance
Formal event and classic car show at Meadowbrook Hall in early August.
Detroit Fashion Week
August.
Fash Bash – a major fashion event
Coordinated by the Detroit Institute of Arts, typically at the Renaissance Center in August.
Woodward Dream Cruise
Third Saturday in August.
Meadowbrook Music Festival
Rochester Hills, July-September.
Detroit Indy Grand Prix
Belle Isle Park – Labor Day weekend.
Detroit International Jazz Festival
International Riverfront – Labor Day weekend.
Rochester Art & Apples Festival sponsored by National City
Weekend after Labor Day.
Old Car Festival
Greenfield Village at The Henry Ford typically the weekend after Labor Day.
Urban Organic Festival link
Every fall.
America’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
November.
Theatre in Detroit
Spring, fall, and winter.
Sports and recreation
Comerica Park in 2007 adjacent to Ford Field.
Main articles: Sports in metropolitan Detroit, Huron-Clinton Metroparks, and Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge
The area which has hosted several major sporting events in order to attract large crowds such as Super Bowl XL; in fact, Detroit is the only northern city to have hosted two Super Bowls. Ford Field hosted the 2009 NCAA Final Four, where North Carolina defeated Michigan State; in April 2007 it hosted WrestleMania 23. Major League Baseball’s 2005 All-Star Game was held at Comerica Park, as were 2006 World Series games due to the Detroit Tigers success. The 2005 All Star Game injected $52 million into the area economy, while Super Bowl XL injected $270 million. In 2008, the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park reported 3.2 million visitors with a 98.6 percent attendance rate.
The area has a 24,000 acre network of “metro parks” which receives about 9 million visitors annually Outdoor activities in the metro region include downhill and cross-county skiing at Alpine Valley Ski Resort, Mt. Brighton, Mt Holly, and Pine Knob Ski Resort, Huron River kayaking and canoeing available through the Huron-Clinton Metroparks, and fresh water beaches such as Metro Beach, Kensington Beach, and Stony Creek Beach. Golf is an important sporting activity in the metropolitan area with a variety of courses, country clubs, and resorts. The Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge is the only international wildlife preserve in North America, uniquely located in the heart of a major metropolitan area. The refuge includes islands, coastal wetlands, marshes, shoals, and waterfront lands along 48 miles of the Detroit River and Western Lake Erie shoreline.
Sites of interest
The beach on Lake St. Clair in the Metro Detroit suburb of St. Clair Shores
The Detroit Zoo’s Arctic Ring of Life. The Zoo’s Rackham Memorial Fountain.
Attractions
Metro location
Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory
Belle Isle Park – downtown Detroit
Architecture of metropolitan Detroit
City and suburbs
Automotive Hall of Fame
The Henry Ford – Dearborn
Charles H. Wright Museum
of African American History
Detroit
Cranbrook Educational Community
Bloomfield Hills
Chrysler Museum
Auburn Hills
Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit
Detroit Historical Museum
Detroit
Detroit Science Center
Detroit
Theatre in Detroit
Downtown Detroit and New Center
Detroit Zoo
Royal Oak
Domino’s Petting Farm
Ann Arbor
Edsel & Eleanor Ford House tour
Grosse Pointe
Henry Ford’s Fair Lane Estate tour
Dearborn
Kensington Metropark Beach
Milford
The Henry Ford
Dearborn
Lawrence Fisher House tour
Detroit
Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Ann Arbor
Meadowbrook Hall
Matilda Dodge-Wilson Estate tour
Rochester Hills
Metro Beach Metropark
Harrison Township
Lake St. Clair
Motown Historical Museum
Detroit
Renaissance Center
Detroit International Riverfront
Russell A. Alger Jr., House,
The Grosse Pointe War Memorial
Grosse Pointe
Stony Creek Metropark Beach
Shelby Township
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
Wayne State University
Detroit
Access
Main article: Transportation in metropolitan Detroit
Photo gallery
The Elwood Bar and Grill is officially listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The R. Hirt Jr., Co. (1893) in the Eastern Market. The architect is unknown.
Detroiter Bar in Bricktown.
Cheli’s Chili Bar on Grand Circus Park has a across from Comerica Park.
See also
Metro Detroit portal
Detroit celebrities
Detroit-style pizza
Images of Metro Detroit
Images of Michigan
Michigan History magazine
List of museums in Michigan
2020 Summer Olympics
Detroit-Windsor
Notes
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^ State of Michigan: MI Kids (2006).Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village
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^ Lee, Danny (December 9, 2007).The 53 Places to Go in 2008.The New York Times. Retrieved on December 10, 2007.
^ USA Today (February 3, 2009).Film production studios coming to Michigan cities.Retrieved on March 27, 2009.
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^ Great Lakes Cruising Coalition Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
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^ July 4, 2007 Detroit News Downtown Detroit Partnership
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^ Belle Isle Detroit Department of Recreation. Retrieved on September 15, 2007. “Spectacular views.”
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Further reading
A&E with Richard Guy Wilson, Ph.D.,(2000). America’s Castles: The Auto Baron Estates, A&E Television Network.
Bridenstine, James (1989). Edsel and Eleanor Ford House. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0814321615.
Cantor, George (2005). Detroit: An Insiders Guide to Michigan. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0472030922.
Fisher, Dale (1996). Ann Arbor: Visions of the Eagle. Grass Lake, MI: Eyry of the Eagle Publishing. ISBN 096156234X.
Fisher, Dale (2005). Southeast Michigan: Horizons of Growth. Grass Lake, MI: Eyry of the Eagle Publishing. ISBN 1891143255.
Fisher, Dale (1994). Detroit: Visions of the Eagle. Grass Lake, MI: Eyry of the Eagle Publishing. ISBN 0-9615623-3-1.
Gavrilovich, Peter and Bill McGraw (2000). The Detroit Almanac. Detroit Free Press. ISBN 0-937247-34-0.
Hauser, Michael and Marianne Weldon (2006). Downtown Detroit’s Movie Palaces (Images of America). Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-4102-8.
Hill, Eric J. and John Gallagher (2002). AIA Detroit: The American Institute of Architects Guide to Detroit Architecture. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-3120-3.
Meyer, Katherine Mattingly and Martin C.P. McElroy with Introduction by W. Hawkins Ferry, Hon A.I.A. (1980). Detroit Architecture A.I.A. Guide Revised Edition. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-1651-4.
Sharoff, Robert (2005). American City: Detroit Architecture. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-3270-6.
Wilson, Matilda Rausch Dodge, Debbie Patrick, ed., (1998). A Place in the Country: Matilda Wilson’s Personal Guidebook to Meadow Brook Hall, Rochester, MI: Oakland University Press.
Woodford, Arthur M. (2001). This is Detroit 1701-2001. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-2914-4.
External links
Detroit travel guide from Wikitravel
Metro Detroit Convention and Visitors Bureau
The New York Times listed Detroit on its list 53 places to visit in 2008. “The 53 Places to Go in 2008″ cited the new Casino resorts and the Detroit Institute of Arts as tourist attractions.
Southfield, Livonia, Novi, Bloomfield Hills, Troy
Royal Oak, Warren, Sterling Heights, Flint
Grosse Pointe, Lake St. Clair
Dearborn, Ann Arbor
Windsor, Ontario
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Lake Erie, Monroe
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Architecture Culture Detroit River Economy Freeways History Historic places International Riverfront Lake St. Clair Media Music Parks and beaches People Skyscrapers Sports Theatre Tourism Transportation
Central city
Detroit
Suburbs
over 80,000
Canton Township Clinton Township Dearborn Livonia Sterling Heights Troy Warren Westland
Suburbs
50,000 to 80,000
Dearborn Heights Farmington Hills Grosse Pointe Macomb Township Novi Pontiac Redford Township Rochester Hills Royal Oak Saint Clair Shores Shelby Township Southfield Taylor Waterford Township West Bloomfield Township
Satellite cities
Ann Arbor Brighton Flint Howell Lapeer Monroe Port Huron Windsor, Ontario
Counties in MSA
Lapeer Livingston Macomb Oakland St. Clair Wayne
Counties in CSA
Genesee Monroe Washtenaw
Region
Southeast Michigan
Outlying regions
Flint/Tri-Cities The Thumb Northwest Ohio Southwestern Ontario
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Theatre in Detroit
Venues
Baldwin Theatre Bohemian National Home Bonstelle Theatre Century Theatre City Theatre Detroit Film Theatre Detroit Masonic Temple Detroit Opera House Detroit Repertory Theatre Fisher Theatre The Fillmore Detroit Fox Theatre Gem Theatre Grande Ballroom Greektown Casino Harpos Concert Theatre Hilberry Theatre MGM Grand Detroit Majestic Theater Max M. Fisher Music Center Motor City Casino Music Hall Center Orchestra Hall Redford Theatre Senate Theatre Studio Theatre
Organizations
Bert’s Entertainment Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit Repertory Theatre Detroit Symphony Orchestra Greektown Casino Kresge Foundation Live Nation MGM Mirage Mosiac Youth Theatre Motor City Casino Nederlander Plowshares Theatre Co. Olympia Entertainment Wayne State University
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Shopping malls in metropolitan Detroit
Enclosed
Class A/B
Briarwood Mall Eastland Center Fairlane Town Center Great Lakes Crossing Lakeside Mall Laurel Park Place Macomb Mall The Mall of Monroe Northland Center Oakland Mall Renaissance Center Somerset Collection Southland Center Twelve Oaks Mall Westland Center
Open-air
Lifestyle Center
Class A/B
Green Oak Village Place The Mall at Partridge Creek Pavilions of Troy (approved) Shoppes at Gateway Park (approved) Southgate Shopping Center Twelve Mile Crossing at Fountain Walk The Village of Rochester Hills Wonderland Village
Class C/
Closed, under redevelopment
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Arborland Center Brighton Mall Great Oaks Mall Lincoln Park Shopping Center Livonia Mall Summit Place Mall Tel-Twelve Mall Universal Mall Winchester Mall
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Parks in metropolitan Detroit
Detroit city
Belle Isle Campus Martius Dequindre Cut International Riverfront Fort Wayne Grand Circus Michigan State Fairgrounds Palmer Park Patton Park
Water Works Park Washington Boulevard
Metro
600 to 1,500 acres (243 to 607 ha)
Addison Oaks Algonac State Park Belle Isle Camp Dearborn Crosswinds Marsh Independence Oaks Lower Huron Metamora-Hadley Recreation Area Metro Beach Metropark River Rouge Park Sterling State Park
1,500 to 5,000 acres (607 to 2,023 ha)
Bald Mountain Hines Drive Hudson Mills Huron Meadows Indian Springs Kensington Lake Erie Metropark Pontiac Lake Recreation Area Oakwoods Pointe Mouillee State Game Area Stony Creek Metropark Wolcott Mill Willow
over 5,000 acres (2,023 ha)
Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge Highland Recreation Area Ortonville Recreation Area Waterloo State Recreation Area
Waterways
Clinton River Detroit River (Islands) Huron River Lake St. Clair River Rouge St. Clair River
Major beaches
Belle Isle Brighton Recreation Area
Kensington Lakeside Beach and Park Lighthouse Beach and Park Metro Beach Stony Creek
Trails
5 to 17 miles (8 to 27 km)
Bald Mountain Detroit River Walk / Dequindre Cut Highland Recreation Lakes Kensington Lakelands Trail State Park Maybury State Park Novi North Park Paint Creek Trail Poly Ann Trail Pontiac Lake Recreation Area Stony Creek Inwood Trails
Zoological and botanical
Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory Cranbrook Detroit Zoo Matthaei Botanical Gardens
See also Tourism in metropolitan Detroit and Huron-Clinton Metroparks
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