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.
By:
Greg Tasker
Imprint: Menasha Ridge Press Inc.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 203mm,
Width: 127mm,
Spine: 12mm
Weight: 255g
ISBN: 9780897329521
ISBN 10: 089732952X
Series: Five-Star Trails
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 04 August 2011
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
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.
Reviews for Five-Star Trails: Ann Arbor and Detroit: Your Guide to the Area's Most Beautiful Hikes
""This new Michigan travel book makes us want to get up and go!"" -- Detroit Free Press, September 2011
