Dynamic, diverse Detroit

A 3 day tour of Michigan
from our Student issue,
Winter 2012.

Detroit has had a profound impact on the world — from putting the world on wheels to the Motown sound. 

This three-day itinerary features attractions and historical sites that can illuminate and excite an educational experience in Michigan’s largest city and southeast Michigan.

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Day One

Tour Ford Field. Get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the 65,000-seat home of the National Football League’s Detroit Lions, Super Bowl XL and the 2009 NCAA Men’s Basketball Final Four. Visit a Ford Field suite and an NFL locker room, walk down the tunnel to the field and stand on the turf for the players’ perspective.

Head to The Detroit Zoo. An animal-lover’s paradise, the zoo in Royal Oak offers large open spaces and wonderful outdoor animal environments. The Wildlife Interpretive Gallery is a must-see. This historic building has been resurrected as a butterfly/hummingbird garden, theater, exhibition space, art gallery and multimedia interactives. 

Enjoy lunch at The Detroit Zoo.

Shop at Great Lakes Crossing Outlets in Auburn Hills. Blending theme entertainment and dining with more than 200 value-oriented and regular-priced stores, Great Lakes Crossing boasts six themed and architecturally distinctive areas in a 1.4-million-square-foot structure. Dinner is at Great Lakes Crossing.

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Day Two

Enjoy breakfast at your hotel. 

Then, visit Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and learn about the African American experience at the world’s largest museum of its kind. Featuring innovative exhibits that celebrate significant events and accomplishments of African Americans, one of its most popular exhibits, “And Still We Rise,” explores a cultural journey and is a testament to the courage, determination, ingenuity and spirit of African Americans as they pursue the full rights of U.S. citizenship. 

Enjoy lunch downtown, with metro Detroit as a melting pot of cultures and flavors. From the ever-popular Saganaki (flaming cheese) and other Greek meals in Greektown, homemade tamales in Mexicantown and the Detroit favorite, the Coney Dog; pace yourself. 

March down to The Parade Company, and visit the working studio of one of the largest, oldest and most spectacular parades, America’s Thanksgiving Parade. Wander through a wonderland of fantasy and floats and see the world’s largest collection of antique papier-mâché heads. 

Cruise along the Detroit River on the Diamond Jack Riverboat Cruise. Special group tours are available for school groups for the two-hour narrated cruise. 

Hit the lanes at the Majestic’s Rock & Bowl and enjoy a pizza party. Bowl a game at the oldest active bowling center in the U.S. and Detroit’s home of Rock ’n’ Bowl. The Majestic offers 16 lanes of glow-in-the-dark fun and music by DJs.

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Day Three

Spend the day at The Henry Ford, which brings the American historical experience to life in Dearborn. 

See President John F. Kennedy’s limousine, Rosa Parks’ iconic bus and thousands of uniquely American innovations and artifacts in the Henry Ford Museum. 

Next door, Greenfield Village features 83 historic buildings, including Thomas Edison’s Menlo Park Laboratory, costumed period presenters and artisans and rides in a Model T. The IMAX theatre has daily showings of motion pictures on a screen six stories wide and eight stories high.

Lunch is on your own at Michigan Café in The Henry Ford or Eagle Tavern in Greenfield Village.

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(800) 338-7648
www.visitdetroit.com

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