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Ambassador Bridge from the Detroit River, Windsor, Ontario, 2025 07 27 01, Detroit, Michigan, United States

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Comerica Park, Home of the Detroit Tigers Baseball Team, Detroit, Michigan, United States

Motown Museum Detroit (52755960301), Detroit, Michigan, United States

About Detroit

Detroit is the largest city in Michigan, set on the Detroit River directly across from Windsor, Canada, one of the few places where Canada lies south of the United States. French explorer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded a fort and trading post here in 1701, making Detroit one of the oldest cities in the Midwest. In the early 1900s Henry Ford, the Dodge brothers, General Motors and Chrysler turned it into the Motor City, the capital of the American auto industry, and its booming factories drew workers from across the country and the world.

The city has been through hard decades of decline, but today Detroit, with around 640,000 residents, is in the midst of a celebrated comeback. Downtown has been revived with restored art deco skyscrapers, new parks and lively restaurants, the QLine streetcar runs up Woodward Avenue, and the restored Michigan Central Station has reopened as a landmark and tech hub. Detroit's music history runs deep: Motown Records was born here in a small house on West Grand Boulevard, and the city also shaped jazz, gospel, techno and rock.

Visitors will find world-class culture. The Detroit Institute of Arts holds one of the finest collections in the country, including Diego Rivera's monumental Detroit Industry murals, and the Motown Museum, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and the nearby Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn tell powerful American stories. The Detroit RiverWalk and Belle Isle Park offer water views and green space, Eastern Market is one of the oldest public markets in the country, and the Tigers, Lions, Pistons and Red Wings all play downtown.

Best seasonMay to October for the RiverWalk, festivals and baseball; winters are cold and snowy.

Ideal stayTwo to three days for downtown, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Motown Museum, Eastern Market, Belle Isle and The Henry Ford.

ArrivingDetroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport is about 25 minutes from downtown, and the QLine streetcar runs along Woodward Avenue.

12 Ways to Experience Detroit

Museums and history 3

Detroit Institute of Arts

One of the largest and finest art museums in the United States, the DIA fills a Beaux-Arts building on Woodward Avenue in Midtown...

Motown Museum

In 1959 Berry Gordy Jr. bought a modest house on West Grand Boulevard, hung a sign reading Hitsville U.S.A. and founded the label...

Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History

Founded in 1965 by obstetrician Charles H. Wright and housed since 1997 in a large domed building in Midtown's cultural center, th...

Parks and nature 3

Detroit RiverWalk

The Detroit RiverWalk is a landscaped path along the Detroit River, stretching for about three and a half miles between the MacArt...

Belle Isle Park

Belle Isle is a 982-acre island park in the Detroit River, larger than New York's Central Park and reached by the MacArthur Bridge...

Campus Martius Park

Campus Martius is the central gathering place of downtown Detroit, a small but lively park at the hub of the radiating street plan...

Shopping and dining 1

Eastern Market

Operating since 1891, Eastern Market is one of the oldest and largest historic public market districts in the United States, sprea...

Landmarks 2

Michigan Central Station

Opened in 1913, this colossal Beaux-Arts rail terminal was designed by the same architects as New York's Grand Central and long do...

Guardian Building

Completed in 1929 for the Union Trust Company, the 40-story Guardian Building is one of the most spectacular Art Deco skyscrapers...

Sports and entertainment 2

Comerica Park

Home of the Detroit Tigers since 2000, Comerica Park sits in the downtown entertainment district across from the Fox Theatre and o...

Fox Theatre Detroit

Opened in 1928, the Fox is the largest surviving movie palace of its era in the United States, with about 5,000 seats. Architect C...

Arts 1

Heidelberg Project

Since 1986, artist Tyree Guyton has turned Heidelberg Street, in the McDougall-Hunt neighborhood on the east side, into an outdoor...

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