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 Mary Beth Doyle Park and Wetland Preserve 
 (previously known as Brown Park), Ann Arbor
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The parking lot on Packard is small.  It's across from Easy St., 50 yards
east of Wood Manor Ct.  Park and walk to Wood Manor Ct., walk south to the
dead end of Wood Manor Ct. and follow the asphalt path into the park.

There is also a parking lot at the southwest corner of the park.  Turn
south onto Stone School Rd. off Packard.  Go to Birch Hollow Dr. and turn
east.  Drive to a "T."  The parking lot is right there.

Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 07:45:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Deaver Daves Armstrong <ddarm@umich.edu>
To: Wayne Fisher <wayne@had.horiba.com>
cc: birders@umich.edu
Subject: Re: Brown Park etc

To get to Brown Park's Verle entrance turn south off Packard onto 
Springbrook and follow bike route signs to Marshall then Verle or to get 
to the field where Savannah sparrows are, turn south onto Stone School 
road off Eisenhower then east (left) onto Birch Hollow. It's a big park 
and the pond is at the NW end while the Chat shrub area is at the SE 
corner. 

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from Laurent Fournier (Jan. 2010)  (see "Eddy Street habitat" for a map)

To be noted, there is a faint trail that connects Mary Beth Doyle Park 
to an Eddy Street habitat located west of Swift Run pond. This is one of 
my favorite places to bird in the spring (I do the breeding bird survey 
for Dea there).  There is access to this nice habitat from Eddy St.  The 
only drawback is the noise from I-94.  Take Platt to Verle (north of 
Swift Run pond) to Eddy.  [See "Eddy Street habitat" for a map.  Bruce] 

If you want to visit both the park and the Eddy St. habitat, park at 
Eddy St. and walk to the park entrance at the end of Verle--or walk the 
trail from the Eddy St. area. If you only want to visit the new wetland, 
park on Wood Manor Ct. (off Packard), or, better, at the small parking 
lot located 200 feet east of Easy St, and then follow the trail along 
the creek (open water in winter) for about 500 feet. I would resist the 
temptation to go directly south into the woods from the small parking 
lot as there is not much to see anyway, and the trail is kind of 
dangerous (made of wood boards), very slick.  In the spring and summer, 
the park is very safe during the day (lots of people play disc golf 
there), but I would probably not go into Mary Beth Doyle Park after 
dark.  Note that the trail that connects the two parks is really hard to 
find in Mary Beth Doyle Park unless you start at its extreme west end 
[see below], but very easy to find and follow (although overgrown and 
very wet in summer) in the Eddy St. habitat.  Note: the Eddy street area 
is very buggy in summer. 

Bruce adds:

There's a southwest entrance to the Mary Beth Doyle Park that's right 
near the wetland pond.  This is a good entrance to use if you are going 
only to the wetland.  Take Eisenhower or Packard to Stone School Rd.  
Turn south and take Stone School Rd. to Birch Hollow Dr. on your left.  
Take Birch Hollow to its end at the park entrance.  There's a small 
parking lot there. 

Also, if you walk west on the previously mentioned trail from the Eddy 
St. habitat all the way to its end, you will come out onto an asphalt 
path near a pedestrian walkway over Stone School Rd.  This location is a 
short distance southeast of the wetland pond.  To get to the wetland 
pond take the middle path of three options.