7 Mile Non-Motorized Entrance

MAYBURY STATE PARK  --  A NEW NON-MOTORIZED ENTRANCE

When Maybury State Park opened in 1975, only two entrances were constructed to serve park visitors.   These Beck road and 8-Mile road entrances were impossible to get to by foot or bike and very dangerous.   Over the years, as residential developments popped up everywhere around the park, additional access became necessary.  Then, in 2015, a new pedestrian/bike entrance was constructed at the corner of 8-Mile & Beck roads, creating access from the north into the park’s trail system.

 Those living on the southern side of the park, still can’t walk or bike to a convenient park entrance.

Let’s do something about it together!

The Solution:

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 need your help to get this project over the finish line!  If you'd like to see a new southern entrance sooner rather than later, get involved today.

The Friends of Maybury is an all-volunteer non-profit organization which has been supporting the park for over 27 years.   Each year, through our volunteer activities, we’ve been able to provide about $10,000 of materials, projects, and financial support.  A new entrance is a big project and we can’t do it without private and corporate support.   Every dollar ever donated to the Friends of Maybury has gone directly to benefit the park.    Donations are also tax-deductible (when applicable).