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Saturday morning, Kerrytown, 8 AM sharp. The market is a 100-plus year tradition in Ann Arbor – the second oldest continuously operating public market in Michigan – and it runs like a well-oiled machine. 130 Michigan vendors, every one of them selling what they grew or made themselves. No resellers. No middle men. Here’s how […]
Ann Arbor is a dog town. You already know this if you’ve walked two blocks downtown and been greeted by four golden retrievers. But off-leash options are more limited than you’d expect – the city runs three fenced dog parks, all of which require an annual permit. Beyond city limits, Washtenaw County adds a few […]
Flat state, big trails. Michigan gets underestimated as a hiking state, and southeast Michigan gets it worse. But within 30 minutes of Ann Arbor, you can be on trails that run through old-growth remnants, along kettle lakes, through wetlands, and across rolling terrain that doesn’t feel like the Midwest at all. Here’s the real list […]
This town is weirdly green. For a city with a Big Ten university, a real restaurant scene, and 120,000 people, Ann Arbor has more parks and nature areas than most places twice its size. Over 160 parks, 2,100 acres of open space, and a river running through the middle of it. You can walk out […]
Half a million people. Three days. July. The Ann Arbor Art Fair is the largest juried art fair in the country, and it takes over 30 blocks of downtown every summer. Nearly 1,000 artists set up booths across three independently run fairs, and the whole thing spills from campus to Main Street and everywhere in […]
Summer in Ann Arbor with kids is easy. The hard part is getting them to leave. Between the river, the museums, the splash pads, and the fact that there’s a petting farm with 200 animals ten minutes from downtown, you’ve got enough material to fill every week from June through September without anyone saying “I’m […]
Ann Arbor never has a boring weekend. The problem is usually the opposite – too many options, not enough hours. Between the live music, the river, the food scene, and the constant rotation of campus events, you could fill every Saturday for a year without repeating yourself. This isn’t a calendar of specific events (those […]
Ann Arbor makes date night easy. The hard part is picking from the absurd number of good options packed into a few walkable blocks downtown. Fine dining, live jazz, cocktail bars, art, escape rooms – it’s all within a ten-minute walk of each other. Here’s how to build a date night that doesn’t end with […]
Forget the campus pad thai joints. Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti have one of the strongest Vietnamese food scenes in the Midwest outside of Chicago. Family-run restaurants that have been perfecting pho for decades sit a few miles from newer spots pushing the cuisine forward with cocktail pairings and tasting menus. This guide covers the spots […]
