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A 4.3 mile walk close to home is always nice, especially when joined by my little brother, but calling this a “trail” was a little hard for me. The Matthaei Botanical Gardens are a popular greenery area part of the University of Michigan Ann Arbor campus. This particular trail is actually a biking and walking path, which takes you through the Radrick Farms areas of the gardens on a paved path.
Approximately half of this trail does not provide any shade, so, during the summer, sunscreen would be highly recommended. If you begin the trail from the botanical garden, getting to the trail is actually an unpaved experience, but taking the entrance from the Dixboro Rd. and Geddes Rd. intersection actually makes the path handicap accessible.
This trail was also our first experience with cicadas this summer, although we really only encountered them for about a mile and a half of the walk. While my brother did have one of them land on him (he’s not a big bug guy), they really weren’t as bad as some of my past experiences, but that true cicada sound was present for most of our adventure.
Raven K 