Downriver day trip: Hour Detroit maps Wyandotte to Monroe
WYANDOTTE. Hour Detroit's guide to a downriver day trip starts here, where the Wyandotte Street Fair runs July 8 through 11. Riverfront restaurant Latitudes serves lobster mac and cheese and fish and chips, R.P. McMurphy's Irish pub has been a neighborhood staple for decades, and Bishop Park offers a riverfront walk with boats to watch.
South of Gibraltar, Lake Erie Metropark in Brownstown Township covers three miles of Lake Erie shoreline with hiking trails, paved biking trails and an 18-hole golf course.
Monroe, founded in 1785 as Frenchtown at the mouth of the River Raisin, is Michigan's third-oldest community and the site of a War of 1812 battle, preserved at River Raisin National Battlefield Park. William C. Sterling State Park, the state's only Lake Erie state park, adds a mile of sandy shoreline, and the River Raisin Heritage Trail connects it all to downtown, where Detroit Beach Pizzeria has served pizza and pasta for more than 60 years.
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