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Belle Isle
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Detroit, Michigan, USA

Belle Isle

Length5.6 mi
Elev. Gain85.3 ft
Est. Steps13000
Road
Restrooms
Parking
Playground
Places to sit
Stroller friendly
Kid friendly
Dog friendly
Scenic view
Lake or River
Created by Night Hob

Belle Isle Introduction

Belle Isle is a 5.6 mile (13,000-step) route located near Detroit, Michigan, USA. This route has an elevation gain of about 85.3 ft and is rated as easy. Find the best walking trails near you in Pacer App.

Attractions Near Belle Isle

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Belle Isle Aquarium

Tourist Attraction
The Belle Isle Aquarium is a public aquarium located in Belle Isle Park in Detroit, Michigan. Designed by noted architects George D. Mason and Albert Kahn, it opened on August 18, 1904, and was the oldest continually operating public aquarium in North America when it closed on April 3, 2005. The aquarium reopened to the public on August 18, 2012, and is now run entirely by volunteers.

Dossin Great Lakes Museum

Tourist Attraction
The Dossin Great Lakes Museum is an historical maritime museum in Detroit, Michigan. Located on The Strand on Belle Isle Park along the Detroit River, this museum places special interest on Detroit's role on national and regional maritime history. The 16,000-square-foot (1,500 m2) museum features exhibits such as one of the largest collection of model ships in the world, and the bow anchor of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, which went down in a storm in 1975.

Belle Isle Conservatory

Tourist Attraction
The Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory (commonly and locally known as the Belle Isle Conservatory) is a greenhouse and a botanical garden located on Belle Isle, a 982-acre island park located in the Detroit River between Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario near the Canada–United States border. The park itself consists of 13 acres of preserved land for the conservatory and its botanical garden.

Belle Isle Park (Michigan)

Park
Belle Isle Park, known simply as Belle Isle (), is a 982-acre (1.534 sq mi; 397 ha) island park in Detroit, Michigan, developed in the late 19th century. It consists of Belle Isle, an island in the Detroit River, as well as several surrounding islets. The U.S.-Canada border is in the channel south of Belle Isle such that the island is not in Canada.

Nancy Brown Peace Carillon

Tourist Attraction
The Nancy Brown Peace Carillon is a carillon on Detroit's Belle Isle dedicated to peace and named after Nancy Brown, the pseudonym of The Detroit News columnist Mrs. J. E. Leslie (born Annie Louise Brown). Brown began writing for the newspaper in 1919, held her first religious "Sunrise Service" (drawing approximately 50,000 people) on Belle Isle in 1934, and began a campaign to raise money to build a peace carillon on the island in 1936.

2001 Tenneco Automotive Grand Prix of Detroit

Place
The 2001 Tenneco Automotive Grand Prix of Detroit was a Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) race that was held on June 17, 2001 on the Raceway on Belle Isle in Detroit, Michigan for the final time for CART. It was the seventh race of the 2001 CART season. The race was won for the second consecutive year by Hélio Castroneves for Team Penske.

1996 ITT Automotive Grand Prix of Detroit

Place
The 1996 ITT Automotive Grand Prix of Detroit was a CART race which happened at the Belle Isle Park. It happened on June 9, 1996. It was the 8th round of the 1996 IndyCar season.

Detroit Boat Club

Place
The Detroit Boat Club was established in 1839, as a sport rowing club. It was first created on the Detroit River during a time in which Detroit was just starting to grow. The Detroit Boat Club is a member of the Detroit Regional Yacht-racing Association (DRYA).

Detroit Yacht Club

Place
The Detroit Yacht Club (DYC) is a private yacht club in Detroit, Michigan, located on its own island off of Belle Isle in the Detroit River between the MacArthur Bridge and the DTE generating plant. The DYC clubhouse is a restored 1920s Mediterranean-style villa that is the largest yacht club clubhouse in the United States.

James Scott Memorial Fountain

Building
The James Scott Memorial Fountain is a monument located in Belle Isle Park, in Detroit, Michigan. Designed by architect Cass Gilbert and sculptor Herbert Adams, the fountain was completed in 1925 at a cost of $500,000. The lower bowl has a diameter of 510 ft (160 m) and the central spray reaches 125 ft (38 m).

Comments

Night Hob
2024/04/28
Nice day to walk it. Always nice to see people on the island.
Night Hob
2024/11/08
Night Hob
2025/02/10
sfedolak
2025/07/08
Last updated: Apr 1, 2026

Route Details

Length

5.6 mi

Elev. Gain

85.3 ft

Est. Steps

13000
Created by
Night Hob
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