Five-Star Trails: Ann Arbor and Detroit - Your Guide to the Area's Most Beautiful Hikes

Each hike features an individual trail map, elevation profile, and at-a-glance information, helping readers quickly find the perfect trip. Sized to fit in a pocket, the book's detailed trail descriptions will help readers find their way on and off the trail. Driving directions and GPS trailhead coordinates will help with navigating the myriad of unnamed roads. The trails covered range from those best suited to the novice, families, experienced hikers, or backpackers.

List of contents

Overview Map
Overview Map Key
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Preface
Hiking Recommendations
Introduction

Detroit
1. Dequindre Cut Greenway
2. Detroit RiverWalk

Ann Arbor
3. Gallup Park Loop and Spur
4. Matthaei Botanical Gardens: Fleming Creek and Dix Pond Trails
5. Matthaei Botanical Gardens: Fleming Creek, Marilyn Bland Prairie, and Sam Graham Trees Trails
6. University of Michigan Nichols Arboretum Trails

West of Ann Arbor
7. Hudson Mills Metropark: Acorn Nature Trail
8. Pinckney State Recreation Area: Crooked Lake Trail
9. Pinckney State Recreation Area: Losee Lake Trail
10. Pinckney State Recreation Area: Silver Lake Trail
11. Waterloo State Recreation Area: Hickory Hills Trail

Brighton
12. Brighton State Recreation Area: Kahchin Trail
13. Brighton State Recreation Area: Penosha Trail
14. Island Lake State Recreation Area: Blue Loop
15. Island Lake State Recreation Area: Yellow Loop
16. Kensington Metropark: Deer Run, Fox, and Chickadee Trails
17. Kensington Metropark: Wildwing Trail
18. Lakelands Trail State Park
19. Proud Lake State Recreation Area: River Trail

North of Detroit
20. Bald Mountain State Recreation Area: North Unit Trails
21. Bald Mountain State Recreation Area: Red Trail
22. Heritage Parks River Trail
23. Lloyd A. Stage Nature Center Loops
24. Orchard Lake Nature Sanctuary
25. West Bloomfield Trail
26. West Bloomfield Woods Nature Preserve
27. Woodland Hills

Northwest of Detroit
28. Holly State Recreation Area: Lakeshore Trail
29. Holly State Recreation Area: Wilderness Trail
30. Indian Springs Metropark: Woodland and Timberland Lake Trails
31. Ortonville State Recreation Area: Hiking-Mountain Bike Trail
32. Pontiac Lake State Recreation Area: Campground to Beach Trail

Northeast of Detroit
33. Paint Creek Trail
34. Seven Ponds Nature Center Loops
35. Stony Creek Metropark: East Lake Trails
36. Wolcott Mill Metropark: Settler’s Trail

Appendixes & Index
Appendix A: Outdoor Retailers
Appendix B: Places to Buy Maps
Appendix C: Hiking Clubs
Index
About the Author
Map Legend

About the author

A Detroit-based journalist, Greg Tasker is currently the Assistant News Editor and Drive Editor at The Detroit News. He first became passionate about hiking while living in Pennsylvania and Maryland and has written hiking stories for Backpacker, AMC Outdoors, Scouting, France Today, Vermont Life, and other publications. He has hiked sections of the Appalachian Trail up and down the East Coast. He also has written winter sports stories—on topics that include cross-country and downhill skiing and snowshoeing—for the travel sections of The Baltimore Sun, Providence Journal Bulletin, and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. While living on the East Coast, Tasker contributed to various editions (1995-2002) of Fodor's Virginia and Maryland, Random House. Tasker returned to Michigan in 2002 and was surprised by the extensive network of hiking trails in the Ann Arbor-Detroit urban area. Extensive exploration of the diverse trail system led to his desire to share it all in a new and much-needed book.

Summary

Lace Up, Grab Your Pack, and Hit the Trails in Ann Arbor and Detroit! Five-Star Trails: Ann Arbor and Detroit is a handy, concise, and inspiring guidebook that presents the very best hiking experiences in this part of Michigan. Each hike features an individual trail map, elevation profile, and at-a-glance information, helping readers quickly find the perfect trip. Sized to fit in a pocket, the book's detailed trail descriptions will help readers find their way on and off the trail. Driving directions and GPS trailhead coordinates will help readers get started. The trails covered range from those best suited to the novice, families, experienced hikers, or backpackers. Surrounding Ann Arbor and Detroit are state, regional, and local parks—all home to a network of trails that wind through hilly woodlands, around lakes and meandering rivers, and across expansive meadows and restored prairie remnants. With the expert guidance of local author Greg Tasker, you’ll enjoy 36 of the region’s best trails.

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"This new Michigan travel book makes us want to get up and go!" -- Detroit Free Press, September 2011

Product details

• Authors: Greg Tasker
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.07.2011
• EAN: 9780897329521
• ISBN: 978-0-89732-952-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Illustrations: 40 maps, 20 charts
• Series: Five-Star Trails; Five-Star Trails
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Other sports disciplines; Travel > Travel guides; Michigan, HEALTH & FITNESS / Healthy Living, SPORTS & RECREATION / Hiking, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Hikes & Walks