William Livingstone Memorial Lighthouse — Attraction in Detroit

Lighthouse is awesome although fenced in and lawn not manicured in the slightest. Can't walk up to the fence to get close enough for photos even. The picnic tables are out in the flooded water, you can't read the info signs, the trails you see here on the map are BOTH GONE, and there's a desperate attempt at a makeshift gravel trail (nice and wide) that leads PAST (not up to) the lighthouse, AND RIGHT TO THE WATER'S EDGE! It is beautiful. BUT TURN BACK AND GO THE SAME ROUTE TO RETURN. The stingy golf course barricaded the end of the trail around the lake. You CANNOT get through. Lots of cool bugs, flowers, and NOT a lot of ivy - very cleaned out trails. Excellent views the entire way! Lots of runners, bikers, dog walkers, and young adults! Not many kids - no bathrooms way out there. No water either....

«Designed by renowned Detroit architect Albert Kahn, the Livingstone Memorial Lighthouse was located at the northern head of Belle Isle, facing Lake St. Clair. The ornamentation of the monument was designed in 1930 by Hungarian sculptor Geza Maroti in the Art Deco style—a classical fluted pillar but with additional modern opulence. The 58-foot-tall lighthouse was sculpted out of Georgia marble – the only such structure in North America.

Its bronze and glass lens, originally from the older Belle Isle Lighthouse that was demolished in 1941 to make room for the Coast Guard station, generates an 8600-candlepower beacon visible for up to...

A peaceful northern protrusion of the Isle marking the entry to the Straits, hydrologically speaking. From here one can barely begin to fathom the vastness of the Lakes, truly freshwater seas, peering out onto a vista of the smallest of them, Lake St. Clair. This vantage point is merely a few hundred feet north of the Lighthouse, an older photograph included to entice one to come discover its present state. Great improvements continue to be made upon the Isle, a veritable Belle of the...