A High Priority Project: In January 2020, the DNR published an extensive General Management Plan for Maybury State Park. With a lot of public inputs, the Plan identified a new non-motorized entrance along the park’s southern border as a major priority. The entire Plan is shown at:
https://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/MayburySP_GMP_682709_7.pdf
Present Circumstances: 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 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 in order to complete the project. To donate to the Seven mile entrance project please contact the Friends of Maybury State Park via www.friendsofmaybury.org.
We are in the home stretch of funding this non-motorized entrance. Please let your family, friends, and colleagues know we’re trying to make this new entrance happen. If you know of any grants, foundations, etc. that this project would fit their mission, please let us know or have them contact us.
How you can Help: Start by joining the Friends of Maybury, so you can keep in touch with the latest status of the project, get regular updates by e-mail, and join regular monthly meetings. If you really want to support this project, make a donation at: https://www.mightycause.com/story/U22jff
The Friends of Maybury Can Help: We are an all-volunteer non-profit 501c3 organization dedicated to help ensure park visitors enjoy their experience here. Over the past 27 years, we’ve conducted numerous programs, events, projects, and workdays. On average, we provide about $10,000 of support to the park each year, mainly through corporate and private donations. Every dollar collected goes exclusively to Maybury State Park. If you’d like to learn more about Friends of Maybury, browse our website.
