Five-Star Trails: Ann Arbor and Detroit

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. Note, for Fodor's Virginia and Maryland, the sales data entered below (see Contributor's Previous Works) is for the 2001 edition. Previous editions' data is not available on Bookscan. 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.

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

• Overview MapOverview Map KeyDedicationAcknowledgmentsPrefaceHiking RecommendationsIntroductionDetroit1. Dequindre Cut Greenway2. Detroit RiverWalkAnn Arbor3. Gallup Park Loop and Spur4. Matthaei Botanical Gardens: Fleming Creek and Dix Pond Trails5. Matthaei Botanical Gardens: Fleming Creek, Marilyn Bland Prairie, and Sam Graham Trees Trails6. University of Michigan Nichols Arboretum TrailsWest of Ann Arbor7. Hudson Mills Metropark: Acorn Nature Trail8. Pinckney State Recreation Area: Crooked Lake Trail9. Pinckney State Recreation Area: Losee Lake Trail10. Pinckney State Recreation Area: Silver Lake Trail11. Waterloo State Recreation Area: Hickory Hills TrailBrighton12. Brighton State Recreation Area: Kahchin Trail13. Brighton State Recreation Area: Penosha Trail14. Island Lake State Recreation Area: Blue Loop15. Island Lake State Recreation Area: Yellow Loop16. Kensington Metropark: Deer Run, Fox, and Chickadee Trails17. Kensington Metropark: Wildwing Trail18. Lakelands Trail State Park19. Proud Lake State Recreation Area: River TrailNorth of Detroit20. Bald Mountain State Recreation Area: North Unit Trails21. Bald Mountain State Recreation Area: Red Trail22. Heritage Parks River Trail23. Lloyd A. Stage Nature Center Loops24. Orchard Lake Nature Sanctuary25. West Bloomfield Trail26. West Bloomfield Woods Nature Preserve27. Woodland HillsNorthwest of Detroit28. Holly State Recreation Area: Lakeshore Trail29. Holly State Recreation Area: Wilderness Trail30. Indian Springs Metropark: Woodland and Timberland Lake Trails31. Ortonville State Recreation Area: Hiking-Mountain Bike Trail32. Pontiac Lake State Recreation Area: Campground to Beach TrailNortheast of Detroit33. Paint Creek Trail34. Seven Ponds Nature Center Loops35. Stony Creek Metropark: East Lake Trails36. Wolcott Mill Metropark: Settler’s TrailAppendixes & IndexAppendix A: Outdoor RetailersAppendix B: Places to Buy MapsAppendix C: Hiking ClubsIndexAbout the AuthorMap Legend