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MI, 48909. send aself-addressed, stamped envelope (two fi restaurants, hotels, andother tr Finder, anonlinesearchable databaseattheMTGA website to plan your trailstrip. The site alsoincludes linksto Alliance website (http://www.michigantrails.org/) for linksto individualtrailwebsites. AlsovisittheMichigan Trails To obtaininformation onany oftheexistingtrailways shown onthismap, visittheMichigan Trails andGreenways statewide trails These pathways includeroutes onformer railcorridors, onpublicland, through corridors, utility andinalongroad ranksatthetop ofthenation,boastingover Michigan State 2,000milesofmulti-usepathways. ofMichigan. The Detroit greenway network joinsadazzlingarray ofindividualtrailsandregional greenway systems throughout the ail-side attractions. If you would If ail-side attractions. likeacopy ofthestate trailsmapanddirectory, please
rst class stamps) to: Michigan rst classstamps)to: Michigan Trail Directory, P.O. Box 27187,Lansing,
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Greenways striving to connect tostriving to eachotherwithoff connect rights ofway. Communities allacross thestate are transportation for allofMichigan’stransportation revitalization, protected spaces, and facilities for recreation, economic on-road linkages. They are creating residents andvisitors.
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Detroit
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Photo courtesy of JJR, Ann Arbor Photo courtesy of Donna Erickson Consulting makeupDetroit’s industrialspine working best/notable: Southwest future work: connections neighborhoodandcommunity completed: resource, theDetroit publicaccess River; to spaces connected andplaces alongtheriverfront; connects: Detroit length: (BelleIsle)Bridge AmbassadorBridgeto Arthur theMac Downriver DeltaGreenways Park Richard segment (BelleIsle) Bridge inGabriel withaplazaandpavilion Arthur attheMac Greenway includingaplazaandpavilion; asegment from Stroh River Place through Mt.ElliottPark; anda best/notable: future work: completed: connects: length: to thenewurbanstate parkandtheriverfront connectivity Detroit RiverWalk andtheMidtown Loop best/notable: Corktown Holy Most District; Historic Trinity Church; Workers Row House Detroit’s mostvibrantneighborhoods;historic future work: completed: accommodations for bicyclists, andabikelanepassingthrough Old Tiger Stadiuminterior park connects: improvements to Roosevelt Park thatincludeabikelanearound theparkandother length: Dequindre CutGreenway paths(RosaParks direct Boulevard, West GrandBoulevard, Street) andSixth DeanSavage Park, Muliette Park, neighborhoodsto andStanton the park; West via3 Riverfront best/notable: Lodge Freeway (east)andDetroit’s West (south) Riverfront future work: completed: connects: length: Corktown-Mexicantown Greenlink proposed greenways in “The Villages” and “Creekside” Neighborhoods best/notable: future work: completed: Cemetery connects: length: Conner CreekGreenway detroit greenways 5.5miles ofRiverWalk alongtheDetroit River 9milestracingtheformer Conner Creek alongConner Avenue andSt.JeanStreet 2milesfrom theDetroit River to Avenue Mack 2.5milesfrom theFort Street Bridgeover theRougeRiver to Outer Drive 16.25milesboundedby W. Luther Boulevard GrandBoulevard King (north), (west), Martin Detroit’s “zip code 48217” communities andtheirdownriver neighbors Detroit anddowntown riverfront to Eastern andMidtown Market Gabriel Richard Park at Mac Arthur (BelleIsle)Bridgeto RichardPark Riverside Park Gabriel Arthur atMac attheAmbassadorBridge Greater Corktown andMexicantown-Hubbard communities to Midtown andCampus Martius; Obtaininglandcontrol for development ofacontinuous andaccessible RiverWalk from the from Connections theRiverWalk and Tri-Centennial State Park to Hamtramck, Eastern Market, the Extending W. Vernor route from 21stStreet straightthrough to Roosevelt Park, Buildingthegreenway to theDownriver anditsconnections LinkedGreenways andthe Public spaces andcelebrations; for publicaccess activities Detroit to anatural riverfront accessibility and Fascinating additionoflightrailpossibility; unsolicited urbanart; Walkable, bikeabledistances to bookstores, pubs, sandwichshops, andtaqueríasin2of Links between bothwell-loved andundiscovered neighborhoodplaces incommunities that Concepts andplansfor the2.5milesegment alongFort Street 2.7 milesofEastRiverWalk: asegment from JoeLouis Arena/Civic Center to Street, Rivard segment from1.2 milesrail-to-trail Detr Plan for comprehensive neighborhoodgreenlink Retraces theroute ofoneDetroit’s long-buriedandlong-forgotten creek beds of toConnections thecity Warren, Macomb County, andtheDetroit RiverWalk; to connections 2 mile Park Gentry attheDetroitMaheras River, Conner Playfi
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This brochure made possible by: Advisory Partners:
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Graphic courtesy of www.detroitmidtown.com Photo courtesy of Hamtramck DDA Cemetery including graves Cemetery of1932’s HungerStrikemarchers many amenities from swimmingpoolsto andhistoric anoutdoor rink; Woodmere of ethnicbusinessdistrict West Vernor with Detroit’s to connect West RiverWalk best/notable: future work: Parkcompleted: connects: length: Southwest DetroitGreenway Center, Science Detroit Historical best/notable: future work: completed: connects: length: Midtown LoopGreenway way between ElizaHowell Park andStoepel Park #4. best/notable: future work: completed: connects: length: Lyndon Greenway Park Dearborn,HamtramckandHighland best/notable: future work: segment completed: connects: downtown stop andexplore thismulti-ethnic length: Inner CircleGreenway Bangladeshi,andArabic residents best/notable: greenways future work: completed: connects: length: Hamtramck Trail connection ofmany connection greenway segments 3miles 2mileloopthrough Detroit’s Cultural Center 1.5miles onLyndon Avenue inDetroit’s Brightmoorcommunity 1.5miles 20mile loop usingDetroit Terminal Railroad’s abandonedright-of-way ElizaHowell Park andStoepel Park 3parks, historic Woodmere Cemetery, andthe West Vernor-Springwells BusinessDistrict Wayne State University, Detroit Center, Medical andtheCultural Center Detroit RiverWalk; Tri-centennial State Park; Dequindre Cut; anddowntowns ofDetroit, Hamtramck’s downtown, Veterans’ Park, Memorial anddiverse neighborhoodsofPolish, Linkbetween southwest Detroit’s 81-acre Patton Park andsoutheast Dearborn’s Lapeer Buildingthepark-to-park connection viaDequindre connection Cut andintegration Riverfront withDetroit’s otherplanned Connections between Detroit’s Connections newandplannedgreenways to complete thecircle Continuous linkfrom thehistoric Fort Street BasculeBridgethrough thevibrant multi- Linksbetween NewCenter, Downtown, andtheRiver Bakeriesandrestaurants of West Vernor; 4parks—Patton, Lapeer, Weiss, andClark—with Provides withseveral alongthe neighborhoodconnection pocketparks animportant Complements well acity suited for non-motorized travel to withmany opportunities Ride your Ride bike (andparkit!)attheDetroit Public Library, Detroit Detroit ofArts, Institute ofpathway Miles completely separated from vehicle traffi Plan for theMidtownLoop Greenway Concept for thepark-to-park connection Greenway Detroit Southwest segment, RiverWalk Detroit segment, Cut Dequindre Plans andconcepts for theHamtramck routes nancial assistance assistance nancial greenway network and engage more and engage more network greenway with Detroit’s and groups communities system. greenway in April 2007 through Coordinator and Greenways Trails the Michigan with fi Alliance, for Foundation the Community from Southeast Michigan, the Hudson-Webber and the Kresge Foundation. Foundation, constructing continue to Foundation greenways. Detroit’s partnerships existing Detroit through programs. volunteer Non- endorsement of the Detroit Transportation motorized Plan. connections the greenways. between consensus facilitate to structure in order development. building and resource Museum, orMuseumofAfrican AmericanHistory • expand Detroit’s to continued We’ve • Greenways a Detroit hired We’ve • the Kresge funding from received We’ve • new maintenance forged We’ve • a City Council secured We’ve • planned new walking and biking We’ve • membership our own formalized We’ve our roots & our vision we can thank as our supportingwe collaborators to date. connect to our individual continue we As can claim of practicalpieces we imagination, accomplishments: these collaborative imagination boast of a collective can now We greenway on a comprehensive focused and its adjacent the City of Detroit for system walk, skate, to bike, communities—places and all of our ourselves for and play stroll, also boast of a collective We neighbors. of planning work the tough to commitment and building the important connections pieces. all the many between c with a comprehensive on a path of we t groups, communication existing greenways and maintenance insurance and programming maintenance, • and strengthen information share • our links between plan physical • operational challenges such as solve • construction, raise funds for
In and arguably a city of vast land area we—the vast challenge, Detroit equally-vast Coalition—saw Greenways abandoned railways saw We opportunity. morning a Saturday and imagined a new children’s found We bike ride. our favorite book shop just blocks from a family stroll imagined taquería, and we and looked around We the two. between planning, others dreaming, many found and making our city. similar changes to each other, found formally In 2007, we began talking, and set off and connection.collaboration individual nonprofi As the GreenWays from grants received Foundation Initiative of the Community Southeast Michigan develop for to and non- recreation for greenways transportationmotorized within the Cities Hamtramck, and Highlandof Detroit, Coalition, Greenways the Detroit As Park. to together come have we are—segment-by- we a Coalition, As and link-by-link—implementing segment transportation non-motorized Detroit’s doing are We network. and greenway from assistance this with considerable advisory partners, and a Detroit funders, Please refer Coordinator. Greenways section of this “contributions” the to and who are learn who we to brochure
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