Saginaw Trail

Saginaw Trail is the collective name for a set of connected roads in

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Central Michigan Central Michigan, also called Mid Michigan, is a region in the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. As its name implies, it is the middle area of the Lower Peninsula. Lower Michigan is said to resemble a mitten, and Mid Michigan cor ...

that runs from

Detroit Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of government of Wayne County. The City of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at th ...

Saginaw Saginaw () is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the seat of Saginaw County. The city of Saginaw and Saginaw County are both in the area known as Mid-Michigan. Saginaw is adjacent to Saginaw Charter Township and considered part of Greater ...

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that was originally a tribal foot trail. To drive it today, drivers would follow: * from Detroit to

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; *Old Woodward Avenue through Birmingham; * from Birmingham to Pontiac; * into downtown Pontiac; *Former routing of Saginaw Street through downtown within the Woodward Avenue Loop; * north of the Woodward Avenue Loop; * north of Pontiac to Clarkston; *Dixie Highway, a set of various county roads that were previously US 10 from Clarkston to near

Grand Blanc Grand Blanc is a city in Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan and a suburb of Flint. The population was 7,784 as of the 2020 US Census. History The unincorporated village of Grand Blanc, or Grumlaw, was a former Indian campground firs ...

; *Saginaw Road and Saginaw Street through Grand Blanc, Burton, and Flint to north of Mount Morris; * from north of Mount Morris near

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to the Genesee–Saginaw County line; *Dixie Highway and Genesee Avenue into Saginaw. {{DEFAULTSORT:Saginaw Trail Historic trails and roads in Michigan Native American trails in the United States Transportation in Wayne County, Michigan Transportation in Saginaw County, Michigan Transportation in Oakland County, Michigan Transportation in Genesee County, Michigan Woodward Avenue U.S. Route 24 Native American history of Michigan