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Belle Isle Park is the largest city-owned island park in the United States, and Belle Isle is the third largest island in the Detroit River, after Grosse Ile and Fighting Island. Belle Isle is the second most-visited state park in the U.S., after Niagara Falls State Park in New York [3]. It is connected to mainland Detroit by the MacArthur Bridge.
The Belle Isle Aquarium is a public aquarium located in Belle Isle Park in Detroit, Michigan. Designed by noted architects George D. Mason and Albert Kahn , [ 5 ] it opened on August 18, 1904, and was the oldest continually operating public aquarium in North America when it closed on April 3, 2005. [ 2 ]
Then, during Mayor Dennis Archer’s era in the 1990s, Archer and his recreation department head Ernest Burkeen campaigned for an entrance fee for Belle Isle to raise money for improvements.
The Detroit Zoological Society is a non-profit organization that operates the Zoo and the Belle Isle Nature Center. The $44.5 million annual operating budget of the organization is supported by earned revenue, philanthropic support, and tri-county ( Macomb , Oakland , and Wayne ) millage.
Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press July 15, 2024 at 7:56 PM The six-lane slide at Belle Isle Park will allow you to ride for free on Friday, July 19 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The Belle Isle Giant Slide went viral in 2022 for being unsafe. Two years later, the slide is open again, and nobody is catching big air.
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