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Belle Isle formally became a state park on February 10, 2014. Users of the state park entering by car or motorcycle must either pay the standard state park user entrance fee or have a Michigan Recreational Passport sticker on the license plate of their vehicles. There is no charge for those who enter the park on foot or by bicycle. [11]
Then, during Mayor Dennis Archer’s era in the 1990s, Archer and his recreation department head Ernest Burkeen campaigned for an entrance fee for Belle Isle to raise money for improvements.
In 1982, the zoo began to charge an admission fee. [14] The Arctic Ring of Life, one of North America's largest polar bear habitats, opened in 2001. [15] [16] Centered around a 300,000 gallon aquarium, it allows visitors to view polar bears from a 70-foot underwater tunnel made of clear acrylic.
The Belle Isle Aquarium is a public aquarium located in Belle Isle Park in Detroit, Michigan. Designed by noted architects George D. Mason and Albert Kahn , [ 5 ] it opened on August 18, 1904, and was the oldest continually operating public aquarium in North America when it closed on April 3, 2005. [ 2 ]
The front entrance to Detroit's Belle Isle Boathouse on Belle Isle in Detroit on Wednesday, October 18, 2023. The boathouse that has been in disrepair for years needs restoration costing $40 to 50 ...
Fitch, with the DNR, said it was a “very happy day” for Belle Isle to have the slide back open. During the summer, the slide will be open from 12:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Fridays and 10:30 a.m ...
Belle Isle is a 54 acre island in the city of Richmond, Virginia on the James River, and is part of the James River Park System.It is accessible to pedestrian and bicycle traffic via a suspension footbridge that runs under the Robert E. Lee Memorial Bridge from the northern shore or via a wooden bridge from the southern shore.
Detroit Community Sailing Center members are teaching young students how to sail as part of their Challenge the Wind program on Thursday, July 20, 2023 from the banks of the Belle Isle Boathouse.