 view within Grand Traverse Commons (photo from Garfield Township Plan) |
compiled from various sources
The Grand Traverse Commons Recreation and Natural Area is a 140-acre park that is overseen by the City of Traverse City and Garfield Charter Township Recreational Authority. Miles of unpaved trails, many covered with woodchips, wander up, down, and around wooded hillsides, streams, meadows, and wetlands. The park is a part of the overall Grand Traverse Commons Redevelopment District and was originally a part of the former State Psychiatric Hospital.
Parking and trailheads to the Natural Area exist on North Long Lake Road, near the intersection of Medical Campus and Orange Drives, near the Barns area, on the west side of the TBA Administrative building, and on the northernmost side of the Copper Ridge development.
Adjacent to the park on the west is a 38-acre wooded parcel owned by the State of Michigan that is also available for public use.
The Northern Michigan Mountain Bike Association is working to improve and expand the trail system. There will be trails optmiized for mountain biking, and others will remain for hiking. Additional trailheads may be built.
Key points of the NMMBA plans are:
• Preserve existing trails wherever possible
• 3+ miles of professional machine-built trails
• Sessional 'hubs' with flow trail loop
• Clay, stone and Wooden materials
• New maps and signage
For an excellent map of the proposed trails, scroll down at The Commons Bike Project
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