Detroit... things to do?

[Andeh1]

Hi all,


Ive got a couple of days to kill, and a hire car, on my own.... Any recommendations for things to do, see, visit in and around detriot?

Thanks

[K50 DEL]

I enjoyed both Lansing and Ann Arbor which are an easy day trip from Detroit

[simon_harris]

K50 DEL said:

I enjoyed both Lansing and Ann Arbor which are an easy day trip from Detroit

So your recommendation for things to do in Detroit is to… leave Detroit…

[davejf]

I can recommend the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn. Another part of it I didn’t get time to see is Greenfield village, part of the same site and if you go in the website it’s all linked so maybe one ticket covers it all.

[K50 DEL]

simon_harris said:

K50 DEL said:

I enjoyed both Lansing and Ann Arbor which are an easy day trip from Detroit

So your recommendation for things to do in Detroit is to… leave Detroit…

Yep…. And anyone who’s been to Detroit will be nodding their heads in agreement 😂

[Gary C]

simon_harris said:

K50 DEL said:

I enjoyed both Lansing and Ann Arbor which are an easy day trip from Detroit

So your recommendation for things to do in Detroit is to… leave Detroit…

I think that is the safest move.

[Andeh1]

Ford museum is on the list then!! Worse case I'll find a Walmart and see what the American lifestyle looks like, but wanted to check on alternatives.....!

[PushedDover]

Been many a years since there, but areas such as Birmingham and Ann Arbour are OK. Some great golf courses there and of course sports

I was part of the Roof construction / lift on the Detroit Lions Stadium and it’s impressive, next door to the Tigers ball park.
Also the Pistons for some Basketball and the Red Wings for Ice Hockey

I do recall a superb and surreal night in a down town bar that set up a karaoke night. Like nothing you’d get in the UK. Amazing skills that were on a par with professional rappers and soul music
Big music background there in Detroit

We used to also go North to the UP (upper peninsula) and the Lakes - amazing scenery

[Alorotom]

If you are feeling brave you may want to have a drive up to M-102/Base Line Road - its the historic "8-mile" area from the film and also where a lot of modern rap was born.

Not the nicest or safest though - but certainly interesting to see (in a similar view as say the Bronx, etc)

[fat80b]

I used to go to Rochester / Auburn Hills with work - They were nice enough places to stay (for work) and having been there in all seasons, it was kind of OK but not somewhere you'd ever consider going on holidy to.

Ann Arbor is the Uni town so is alright as well.

Downtown - the very center is do-able - We went to the baseball once which was fine, and the once-knackered Grand Central station (identical-ish to the one in New York) was interesting although it appears to be restored now.

Other than that, it's probably worth noting that none of the folks that worked in Rochester lived in Detroit - some of them even lived in Canada and crossed the border every day!

[LimmerickLad]

Spent a day at a place called Race Car Replicas if that's you sort of thing - Ex Brit owner too...........but got diverted off the main road on the way to the airport a few years ago.....that was and intresting hour or so.

[Slow.Patrol]

Andeh1 said:

Worse case I'll find a Walmart and see what the American lifestyle looks like, but wanted to check on alternatives.....!

This is always on the list when I holiday in the US. Easy half day outing.

We discovered Smuckers Goober Grape one year and a few jars come home with us. We had a suitcase full one year and got stopped by security who flagged it up as suspect. The guys had a good laugh at us.

[Actual]

The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)

“Take him to Detroit”

I won't link the clip because it may contain historical racial language