Metro Beach Metropark
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Sign along Black Creek welcoming boaters
Metro Beach is a unit of the Huron-Clinton Metroparks system located roughly 16 miles north of Detroit, Michigan in Harrison Township, Macomb County. Metro Beach has been in existence since the 1940s and has changed much since those times. The main attractions in Metro Beach are the beach on Lake St. Clair, the "Squirt Zone" where kids can play with equipment that shoots water, the 18 hole, Par 3 golf course, the fitness trails, and the Nature Study Area where 275 species of birds have been recorded. The park is located at Jefferson Avenue and Metropolitan Parkway (16 Mile Road) and there are signs to Metro Beach on I-94.
[edit] Miscellaneous Trivia
- The end of "The Point" that extends into Lake St. Clair was originally an island.
- The paved fitness trail runs for 4 miles inside the confines the park.
- On a clear day, the Renaissance Center in Detroit is visible over Lake St. Clair.
- Despite being in a suburban area, there are deer that live within Metro Beach.
- At one point the sanitary conditions of the water at the beach was so bad that DJs at radio station WCSX wrote a parody of The Beach Boys's Kokomo making fun of it.
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| Huron-Clinton Metroparks |  |
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| Dehli • Dextor-Huron • Hudson Mills • Huron Meadows • Indian Springs • Kensington • Lake Erie • Lower Huron • Metro Beach • Oakwoods • Stony Creek • Wolcott Mill • Willow |
