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Bayfront Park holds the city's annual "America's Birthday Bash" on Independence Day, which attracted over 60,000 visitors in 2011. The park also hosts the city's official New Year's Eve party that annually hosts over 70,000 visitors. Visitors are encouraged to take public transport for events at Bayfront Park as parking can be scarce and expensive.
Belle Isle State Park is a 982-acre (397 ha) island state park in the Detroit River, home to the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory, the Detroit Yacht Club, the Detroit Boat Club, the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, a Coast Guard post, and a golf course. Until its November 2013 conversion to a state park, it was largest island city park in the ...
Two area parks, the Eliza Howell Park and Stoepel Park, are in Brightmoor. A greenway links the two parks. [5] Eliza Howell Park, near Fenkell and Telegraph, has 250 acres (100 ha) of land, making it the fourth largest park in Detroit; this is about one fourth of the area of Belle Isle or .25 square miles (0.65 km 2). The Cheyne family gave 138 ...
Downtown Detroit is the central business district and a residential area of the city of Detroit, Michigan, United States.Locally, "downtown" tends to refer to the 1.4 square mile region bordered by M-10 (Lodge Freeway) to the west, Interstate 75 (I-75, Fisher Freeway) to the north, I-375 (Chrysler Freeway) to the east, and the Detroit River to the south.
Detroit Parks & Recreation maintains 308 public parks, totaling 4,950 (2,003 ha) acres or about 5.6% of the city's land area. Belle Isle Park, Detroit's largest and most visited park is the largest city-owned island park in the U.S., covering 982 acres (397 ha). Grand Circus, the city's first municipal park, opened in 1847. In the early 20th ...
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Boynton and Oakwood Heights occupy the southernmost 2.80 square miles (7.25 km 2) of the city of Detroit. It is the only area of the Detroit city limits that fall south of the River Rouge. Boynton is the southernmost neighborhood, stretching as far south as Outer Drive on the border with the city of Lincoln Park.
1947: Area codes 313, 517 and 616 are three of the original 86 area codes in the North American Numbering Plan. 1961: Area code 906 was created in the first split of 616. 1993: Area code 810 was created in the first split of 313. 1997: Area code 734 was created in the second split of 313. and area code 248 was created in the first split of 810 ...