Bird Hills Nature Area — Attraction in Ann Arbor

The best nature trail around AA area for people just wanting to up the calorie burn on a jog, or to run the energy out of the pup while enjoying nature. Is there a noisy highway on one end?...exposed tree roots...not enough birds, and occasional busy times?...well, maybe. I guess at that point...good luck at purchasing your own oasis on a secluded island.

I am from western MI, so I was spoiled from the lakeshore and all the beautiful trails back there. This one BY FAR reminds me of home in comparison to many others. It's near impossible to get lost; plenty of trails that "loop back around." Don't enter into GPS, it will take you into the middle of nowhere. Bird road the best,...or cross over to Barton and walk back. Weekends do start to get busy around 10-8 in the summer; definitely worth...

We have been here before for Xmas day lunch and did not disappoint, we had a lovely table spacious, horderves on the table when we arrived, we ordered drinks, a bottle of water on the table a nice touch, then our starters we brought to us, very tasty the French onion soup superb. We went up to get our main a delicious carvery, my son a vegetarian was served a really nice goats cheese tart. Then our pudding was served at our table very tasty Xmas pudding, then homemade mince pies, coffee and cream and then chocolates. It was brilliant and very reasonably priced, we have eaten out Xmas dinner for the last twenty years and this is definitely...

wonderful hardwoods, hilly terrain, marked trails, park gets a lot of traffic, but is large so OK, has some benches in great locations, appreciate the shade in the park on hot days. In late March 2021, had unpleasant experience watching an older lady stripping bark off a very old white birch bark tree, probably just to do some craft project, but how inconsiderate, as it can kill the tree, but if not the bark will take 10-20 years to grow back and it is unusual to even see large birch trees in this shaded environment. She left, but damage was...