Seven Ponds Nature Center is 50 miles north and 25 miles east of Ann Arbor 25 miles east and 5 miles south of Flint 20 miles north and 5 miles west of Pontiac To get there from Ann Arbor take U.S. 23 north to I-69 near Flint. Get onto I-69 North. (This will take you east.) Take Exit 155 and turn right on Lapeer Road/S. Main St. Follow Lapeer Road five or six miles to Dryden Road and turn left. Continue about five miles to Calkins Road. Turn right on Calkins and drive a mile. Bear left on Crawford Road. Continue to the Seven Ponds Nature Center at 3845 Crawford Road. Open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Mondays. $3 admission fee. Bruce --------------- From: GrayJudith@aol.com Date sent: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 16:10:55 EST To: bbowman@umich.edu Subject: Directions to Seven Ponds Nature Center Seven Ponds Nature Center is in Lapeer County, near the town of Dryden. The address is 3845 Crawford Road. It is an education center of the Michigan Audubon Society, and encompasses 245 acres of glacial lakes, fields, woodlands, and marshes. It includes five miles of nature trails, bridges, boardwalks, and viewing towers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: BRapai@aol.com Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 17:23:52 EDT Subject: summer tanager, Seven Ponds To: birders@umich.edu Reply-to: BRapai@aol.com Greetings! Grosse Pointe Audubon hit the field today for our annual trip to Seven Ponds Nature Center in Lapeer County. We had 73 species -- not a house sparrow in sight! --including the first summer tanager in the history of the Center. If you're going...look for the tanager near the butterfly garden, down the hill behind the nature center. If you never been to Seven Ponds -- make the time to go someday. It's a special place. Good birding, Bill Rapai Grosse Pointe --------------- From: BRapai@aol.com Date sent: Sun, 12 May 2002 20:50:15 EDT Subject: Re: Seven Ponds hours To: bbowman@umich.edu Bruce: The Nature Center is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Mondays. There is a $3 admission fee. I suspect that if you're there before 9, though, there wouldn't be any trouble. I don't think there's a gate or chain or anything that blocks the road to the center. If you have any questions, you can e-mail nature center director Mike Champagne at spnc@tir.com. I suspect he reads his e-mail only at work, though. Good luck. Bill p.s.: There's a web site for the center. Go to Michiganaudubon.org and look on their sanctuaries page.