Seven Mile Non-Motorized Entrance

In 2020, the Maybury State Park’s General Management Plan identified a non-motorized entrance along the southern border of the park as a priority to provide community access from all directions and to link current and planned trails in Wayne and Oakland Counties. After a fundraising campaign in 2020, the Friends of Maybury State Park donated $18,000 in 2021 toward the preliminary engineering study.

Since the entrance will be constructed in a Wayne County Road Right of Way, a traffic count study was completed in January 2022 and it was determined that a HAWK (Pedestrian Hybrid Beacon Signal) is required to approve construction. The first phase, which has been funded and completed, was the project engineering and design of the pedestrian HAWK signal crossing and access into the park.

The Friends of Maybury State Park has received many generous private donations. All funds that were donated for the Seven Mile entrance have been allocated for this project. In addition, over the last several years two matching grants were applied for and received from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

In January of 2024 the park received an engineering cost estimate for the project and has become aware that additional funds need to be raised for completion. The DNR and Friends of Maybury State Park are fully committed to this community and park enhancement and are exploring private and public funding avenues to complete the project.

To donate to the Seven Mile Non-Motorized Entrance project, please go to our Donate page, or visit our MightyCause profile.

See the Maybury State Park General Management Plan (PDF) from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.