We recommend having a car at your disposal, and Uber is very reliable.
While new bike lanes and transit lines have been added, it’s not enough for visitors to easily transfer around the city. (It IS the Motor City after all.) Sites are spread out, and some areas still aren’t safe enough to walk around, especially at night. From the city’s starting point at Campus Martius, streets jut out from every angle, creating a fun but hard-to-navigate pattern.ĭetroit is not a walkable city by any stretch. The city’s spokelike street pattern was devised by good ol’ Augustus Brevoort Woodward, a judge and the namesake of the city’s main thoroughfare, Woodward Avenue (akin to Toronto’s Yonge Street). And remember they can also check your phones, so put the locks on before crossing the border, honey.Īfter Detroit burned to the ground in 1805, city planners took the opportunity to start from scratch. Be prepared to be taken in for secondary inspection. They are more often than not rather humourless, very serious, and ask lots of questions.
If you’re driving to Detroit, chances are you will cross over Windsor’s Ambassador Bridge or through the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel. Keep this in mind when navigating the streets. While Detroit belongs to our neighbours to the south, geographically it’s north of the Canadian border.
