Pleasant Walks and Drives About Ann Arbor
I came to Ann Arbor in 1859, and was a student in the university for six years, and since that time have been a resident of Ann Arbor. For business and pleasure I have taken a great many walks and drives in and about our city and over the surrounding county. I am fully convinced that a large number of our citizens are not very well acquainted with the numerous very pleasant walks and drives in this vicinity. I have traveled over many portions of this country, East, West, and South, and somewhat in Europe, yet I have never seen pleasanter drives or more beautiful country scenery than we have within a few miles of our city. I shall proceed to describe the course of some of them with a hope that it may induce many of our citizens to investigate and enjoy the many interesting and beautiful walks and drives in and about Ann Arbor. Some of them will be rather long to designate as walks, but all who possess a bicycle or a horse and carriage, can readily enjoy the longest of them. I will designate the different walks and drives by the letters of the alphabet and other familiar names and designations, giving those first that I consider the most accessible and interesting. Of course I cannot give all of them in this vicinity, and will only attempt to give some of those that I consider the most accessible and attractive. Branching off from those that I shall give, are others almost innumerable, that can be enjoyed by all lovers of out-of-doors exercise.