Written for busy parents and families on the go, Michigan Family Field Trips features the best Michigan places for children, in a format that's small enough to stow in a bag or the car.
Ellyce Field explores 60 sites and includes restaurant suggestions for family-run establishments wherever possible, many of them with kids' menus. Michigan Family Field Trips is divided into four color-coded sections: southeastern Michigan, Mid-Michigan, Western Michigan, and Northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula. The book also includes important information about each site such as address, telephone number, Web address, hours, admission fee, parking, and age appropriateness.
Features such popular and lesser-known sites as:
Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum Cranbrook Institute of Science Detroit Puppet Theater Ford Rouge Factory Tour Lionel Trains Potter Park Zoo Curious Kids Museum Windmill Island Hartwick Pines State Park Soo Locks Boat Tour
Ellyce Field writes for the Detroit News and is the author of the Detroit Kids Catalog series. Visit her website at www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=OPINION0338

Michigan Family Field Trips: Fun Sites for Kids

Parenting & Relationships

Field, Ellyce

Family Relationships

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN REGIONAL

The Metro Detroit area has hours worth of fun and activities for its smaller residents and their parents. Detroit Kids Catalog combines over twenty-five hundred activities in Metropolitan Detroit, from short outings to daylong excursions, in a handy and easy to use guide. 
Detroit Kids Catalog is a welcome addition to the glove compartment of any car or minivan. This updated edition includes lots of ideas for parents, grandparents, teachers, scout leaders, and anyone interested in pulling the kids away from the television and exploring Metro Detroit. 
This latest edition includes: . More than 150 new sites and activities, including a list of area malls and their special family events, new museums, and new features of old favorites like the Henry Ford Museum. 
. Enlarged extensive coverage of eleven Southeast Michigan counties and the Greater Windsor area.
. Travel tips at the beginning of each chapter to help better plan family outings.
. Important information and numbers for the Michigan Travel Bureau, local recreation departments, area hospitals, and theater box offices, as well as for Amtrak, Via Rail, and local bus lines.

Detroit Kids Catalog: A Family Guide for the 21st Century (Great Lakes Books)

Reference

Wayne State University

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History

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Americas

Wayne State University Press

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