Fall Colors

NORTHVILLIANS,

Over the past weeks, I’ve written about our Victorian Heritage Festival, Skeletons Alive and Cider Mills. This week, as we are in the middle of the Fall season, we’ll look at the spectacular colors we’re starting to experience as our local foliage starts changing into vibrant shades of red, yellow and orange hues. Our beautiful heritage trees are just one reason Northville is designated a TREE CITY USA.

Let’s look at where the brilliant COLORS are starting to reveal themselves here in the VILLE!  

Fall is definitely here with the trees starting to change to spectacular hues, with the aroma of bonfires and the sweet smell of cider in the air. If you want to enjoy the fall colors around Northville, I suggest you visit the following locations:

• NORTHVILLE’S PARMENTER’S CIDER MILL – Start your color tour by stopping by one of Michigan’s oldest cider mills (on the Rouge River) surrounded by a canopy of trees (714 Baseline Road). Parmenter’s is ranked as one of the top cider mills in Metro Detroit. Watch them make that sweet-smelling nectar using local apples while enjoying the colors of the trees that surround the Mill.
• MILL RACE VILLAGE – Just down the road from Parmenter’s, experience our historic Mill Race Village with its newly bricked lane (215 Griswold St) along with views at Ford Field. Take in the local colors and admire the brilliant fall reflections off the Mill Pond & the Middle Rouge River.
   
• VICTORIAN HOMES AND CHAMPION TREES – Walk down Dunlap St. with its historic Victorian homes and legacy trees dating back to the mid-1800’s. Continue your stroll in the Ville through the various traditional burgs, including the rest of the Historic District, Cabbagetown, Bealtown, and Orchard Heights, along with some spectacular hardwoods in the Northville Estates area.

View some of our most striking trees as they display their fall colors on the Northville Tree Champions’ Majestic Tree Tour (Link). Share a photo of your favorite tree to enter their 2^nd Annual Fall Colors Contest. Link

• WAYNE COUNTY’S CASS BENTON PARK – Traverse through Wayne County’s Cass Benton Park on Hines Drive that runs between Northville and Dearborn. The State’s oldest Arboretum is in our community, also on Hines Drive.  Remember, it’s not the destination that’s important in life but the journey … so enjoy the colors while you go down the Parkway.

• MAYBURY STATE PARK – Another great area to visit, with entry off Beck or 8 Mile. The Park includes close to 1000 acres of gently rolling terrain, open meadows and mature forests, giving spectacular fall bursts of colors.
   
• FISH HATCHERY PARK – take a scenic walk down by the river, the pond area, and the winding paths (635 Fairbrook – 7 Mile & Orchard Dr.). 

• RURAL HILL CEMETERY – An additional hot spot for colors where you will find some of the oldest and most colorful trees in the area. Rural Hill Cemetery is truly spectacular and peaceful this time of year (215 W. 7 Mile/Rogers). Also check out Oakwood Cemetery on Cady St. with its over 200-year-old oaks.

THIS GOES TO SHOW YOU – to see some of the state’s most fantastic bursts of colors, you don’t have to go much farther than our own back yards.

Next week, we will conclude our Fall Series by sharing stories about our Classic Halloween celebrations in the Ville.

Keep that Northville Fall Color Faith!

Brian Turnbull
Mayor – Northville
BTurnbull@ci.northville.mi.us / 248.505.6849

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