This park runs several miles along the Huron River. Several picnic areas, a water park, golf course, bike trails, nature hikes. Admission to the park by paying a daily or annual pass fee. Check the park website for special events like fireworks: www.metroparks.com
Visited Lower Huron Metropark with the intent to play the par-3 course. The park has beautiful trails for biking, walking or jogging. The par-3 course is nice and great for working on your short game. The staff at the park were both friendly and helpful.
This is a nice, clean park. I love their bike trail. It connects to the other nearby parks so you can ride for, I believe, 40 miles. They also have nice walking/ hiking trails. The river runs thru the park and the bike trail runs alongside it. It's quite peaceful and pretty. They also have an aquatic center, fishing and camping. I have enjoyed all of my visits there.
Starting at the entrance off Haggerty Rd. one can bike along huron river for @ 8 miles ending at a small nature sanctuary. The trail goes over bridges and past an old cemetery with headstones dating back to the 1800s. It winds thru 3 different parks with a spur running off to the city of New Boston where you may stop for a beer and burger or an ice cream, the scenery is very beautiful and there is fishing and canoeing. Good place for small mouth bass.
Lower Huron Metro Park is connected to Willow Metro Park so you can jog, bike or walk for a long ways. I bicycled for 16 miles on the nice paved pathway with beautiful scenery. The Huron Eiver runs along much of the route.
Kids love camping and waterparks so when they are a bikeride away from each other, it is golden to kids. Walnut Grove Campgrounds at Lower Huron Metropark (In Belleville, NOT Bellvue) are spic and span. It is a 30 minute walk, 15 minute bike ride or 5 minute car ride from Turtle Cove Waterpark within the park. The bike ride between the camp and waterpark is lovely - over a bridge, up one hill that is walkable on the way up and a woo hoo! on the way down. It is nicely paved. We heard owls, woodpeckers and bullfrogs. There was a cute playground and a clean drinking fountain near our site.The bathrooms are the cleanest public restrooms I have ever seen. Each site has a well taken care of fire pit. It is not crowded.Turtle Cove is a sweet smaller waterpark with 2 water slides, a zero depth pool with toys attached to the pool, a lap pool, a lazy river, a splash pad with a giant wonderful bucket that dumps down every few minutes. (The kids said it is not as big as Kalahari but they still loved it for 2 days). The food at the waterpark is very expensive and unhealthy, so plan to pack a cooler full of food and eat it just outside the park at the picnic tables. Everyone we met that worked at Lower Huron Metropark was friendly and helpful and the people who use the park are a nice group. I recommend this park as a perfect get-away with children. It is inexpensive ($20/night for the campground, $8/adult for the waterpark, $5 admission to the Metropark or a pass), close to metro Detroit, super fun especially from a child's perspective, peaceful, and easy. It is also connected to two other Metroparks where there is a pool and some boat rentals and miles and miles of bike trails. Pack a tent, a cooler, and some bikes to spend some quality time with kids without any hassle.
I have read that this course is in danger of being shut down, and I sure hope it isn't. This is the best place on the planet to introduce children to "real" golf, and it's a heck of a lot of fun for grownups to play, too. Leave your woods in the car. All you'll need is a 9-iron, a pitching wedge and a putter (well, okay, a sand wedge if you must). And a few balls, in case you put one in the Huron River, which runs alongside six of the 18 holes. The distances of the holes are 52 to 110 yards. The course is very scenic and for the most part in good shape. And the best part is the price -- $6 weekdays, $7 weekends, with an extra buck for a pull cart. They'll even rent you a 9-iron and a putter for $1.50. The reason it's good for kids -- the local course rule is that if you aren't on the green in six strokes, put it on the green. Kids as young as 5 can get a taste of what real golf is like, and the grownups get to work on their short game. It's just a blast, and two hours very well spent.
This park is in Belleville, MI. 100 miles east of Bellevue.....
I remember coming here as a kid with my mom and dad and my grandmother and grandfather. The park has always been nice. They have fireworks on the 4th of July. There are tails where you can walk or even ride bikes! There are many different wild animals and plant life that you'll find through out the park. There is a water park (which you have to pay for) and many different play areas for children! I recommend anyone to come here if visiting or even live near by for a chance to be around some nature. The park holds many different activities all year round!
It was convenient and all was covered. Our family had a good time there. The bathroom was not the best.