  Ruxy17 Member Username: Ruxy17 Post Number: 54 Registered: 08-2007 |
well, we got the snow day we were hoping for...where can i go sledding around here? | ||
Novine Member Username: Novine Post Number: 976 Registered: 07-2007 |
I don't know if the sled hill in Hines Park in Northville is still open. It's a great hill but I think they had a fatal there a number of years ago. | ||
Lefty2 Member Username: Lefty2 Post Number: 2968 Registered: 07-2007 |
pine knob | ||
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed Post Number: 3627 Registered: 04-2006 |
Kensington. In the city you can go to Rouge Park. | ||
Tsomyak Member Username: Tsomyak Post Number: 45 Registered: 04-2008 |
Balduck park on the east side is a great hill for sledding. Do they still have the toboggan runs there? It's east of Chandler Park drive, a few blocks south of Moross. | ||
Umbound Member Username: Umbound Post Number: 248 Registered: 02-2008 |
I dont know about in the city, but you can go to Shiawasse Hill, its in Farmington Hills on Farmington rd right before it cuts off into Downtown Farmington. I cant even count how many times i have gone there. you wont be disappointed trust me. | ||
Ptero Member Username: Ptero Post Number: 182 Registered: 12-2005 |
Used to go to Lola Valley(sp?). It's along 6 mile a few miles west of Telegraph. North of 6 mile. | ||
Vivadetroit Member Username: Vivadetroit Post Number: 139 Registered: 04-2008 |
I second Balduck. There's also a hill at 13 Mile & John R in Madison Heights behind the city hall. | ||
Gary Member Username: Gary Post Number: 276 Registered: 02-2004 |
Shepherd Park in Oak Park. | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 14951 Registered: 12-2003 |
It has been decades, but I'm sure what we used to call Garbage Hill is still the best on the west-side, if you don't want to stand in line for the big official hill off Hines Drive just west of Inkster. Remembering where it is...seems to be a problem today. Outer Drive just north of Warren Avenue? East side of the street, look for the cars and kids. It should be pretty busy today! | ||
Jtf1972 Member Username: Jtf1972 Post Number: 87 Registered: 08-2008 |
Derby hill was always good | ||
Alley Member Username: Alley Post Number: 979 Registered: 02-2008 |
Balduck is the best, that's where I always went as a child. If you're adventurous, you can go down the back of the hill. I want to go today! | ||
Living_in_the_d Member Username: Living_in_the_d Post Number: 317 Registered: 01-2008 |
Yeah. Definitly Balduck is the place to go. | ||
Eastsideal Member Username: Eastsideal Post Number: 122 Registered: 10-2007 |
Wow, that's a nice memory I had forgotten all about - sledding at the Balduck hill. Always fun. | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 5169 Registered: 04-2005 |
You had to be real adventurous to go down the back of the hill. If I remember correctly, it was all rocks and roots back there. Does anyone but me remember the nature trails. I may have asked this before, but don't remember an answer | ||
Macknwarren Member Username: Macknwarren Post Number: 92 Registered: 10-2007 |
Wooden toboggan runs are long gone at Balduck, but the hill remains perfect. But, Alley: Sliding down the back of the hill? Seriously? | ||
Alley Member Username: Alley Post Number: 981 Registered: 02-2008 |
There was one clear, skinny path on the back--if you could steer clear of the roots it was really fast and fun. I wouldn't try it now (as I'm now a 30 year old woman) and I wouldn't let my kids do it. Was there an iceskating rink behind the hill @ Balduck? I seem to remember one.. | ||
Spitcoff Member Username: Spitcoff Post Number: 110 Registered: 03-2004 |
oak park park has a good hill and the one behind lampheer high school in madison heights is good 2 | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 4391 Registered: 02-2005 |
The poster asked re: the city...answer: Balduck Park. | ||
Det313grrl Member Username: Det313grrl Post Number: 269 Registered: 01-2005 |
Balduck Park for sure! I've got many fond eastside memories from that place. | ||
Tsomyak Member Username: Tsomyak Post Number: 49 Registered: 04-2008 |
JCole, I remember the nature trail there. The ones across Chandler Park Drive, on the opposite side of the park from the hill? The gate was chained shut, but the chain was loose enough to squeeze through. I used to take my dog back there to chase the squirrels (not that she ever caught one, mind you.). | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 5177 Registered: 04-2005 |
That's the one's I'm talking about, TS. We used to sneak in there back in the day, but not to chase squirrels  | ||
Wlrks Member Username: Wlrks Post Number: 3 Registered: 10-2008 |
Clinton River Rd and Romeo Plank right across from the cemetary | ||
Larryinflorida Member Username: Larryinflorida Post Number: 3341 Registered: 02-2007 |
Derby Hill doesn't look too appealing now, but they used to have some great toboggan ramps til the n'er do wells burned them down in the 70's. (Message edited by Larryinflorida on December 19, 2008) | ||
Turkeycall Member Username: Turkeycall Post Number: 110 Registered: 09-2008 |
Whenever I return to the Detroit area for family visits, I try to drive by the house on Farmbrook where I grew up - next door to Bulletmagnet - and then Balduck Park. Whenever I view the hill from Chandler Park Drive I can't help but think it is a lot smaller [shorter?] than I remember. Maybe all the sledding wore it down. There was a thread dedicated to Balduck Hill. Great pictures, too. | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 5990 Registered: 08-2004 |
Turkeycall... I grew up in the 5900 block of Marseilles... where did you on Farmbrook? Did you know the Sinuber's or Gott's or Burton's on Lodewyck? Did you go to Marquette? | ||
Alley Member Username: Alley Post Number: 983 Registered: 02-2008 |
I lived at 4586 Farmbrook for a while in 1997ish | ||
Dave70 Member Username: Dave70 Post Number: 72 Registered: 08-2007 |
Hehe, my friends and I used to play Laser Tag in the nature trails at Balduck when we were still in high school. Late at night and in snow like this! It was great fun. ;) And yes, we had fun sledding on the hill too. Including the daring back side. | ||
Macknwarren Member Username: Macknwarren Post Number: 93 Registered: 10-2007 |
Alley: The Balduck Park skating rink was located to the right of the hill as you stood on top of it, in the direction of the intersection of E. Warren and Canyon. It was huge, the product of simply opening a fire hydrant onto a sprawling depression in the earth. It seemed so simple; I always wondered why the city stopped doing it. | ||
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku Post Number: 2058 Registered: 03-2006 |
Griswold from State down to Jefferson has a nice slope. After 5pm it's all yours! | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 14956 Registered: 12-2003 |
LOL, we'll have to place spotters at the intersections...but spoken from skateboard experience, Chitaku?! | ||
Tayshaun22 Member Username: Tayshaun22 Post Number: 395 Registered: 02-2005 |
Gannon, it's on Hines Dr. between Inkster and Middlebelt. | ||
Jackpot Member Username: Jackpot Post Number: 37 Registered: 02-2008 |
aaaaahhhhhaaaahahahahahaha, chitaku! | ||
Sean_of_detroit Member Username: Sean_of_detroit Post Number: 2119 Registered: 03-2008 |
Yes Gannon! Growing up, Garbage Hill was one of my favorites too. Tayshaun22 is right; it's on Hines Drive. | ||
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku Post Number: 2060 Registered: 03-2006 |
longboard experience but all the same! either way plenty of dangerous fun! | ||
Servite76 Member Username: Servite76 Post Number: 134 Registered: 02-2008 |
Daughter's heading over to Balduck with her friends in a little while. Still a great place to go. | ||
Turkeycall Member Username: Turkeycall Post Number: 111 Registered: 09-2008 |
Gistok, I was 5233 Farmbrook (TUxedo 2-1267). I used to hang around with Dan Eichoff. He lived at the corner of Lodewyck and Chandler Park Drive. I spent a lot of time with a guy around the block from me, Tom Treppa. He had a stack of comic books several feet high. I remember his dad used to sit in a chaise chair in the back yard, listening to Tigers baseball, drinking Altes beer. I had another buddy who lived a couple of houses off of Frankfort on Marseilles, Greg De Vries. Most of the time, though, we hung with Bulletmagnet and his brothers and sisters. I never paid much attention to house numbers. Did the 5900s start at Southampton? | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 6200 Registered: 12-2005 |
Stony Creek has sledding. quote: | ||
Reddog289 Member Username: Reddog289 Post Number: 799 Registered: 08-2007 |
Went to Garbage Hill in Hines back in the 80,s, think it was closed cause the Sheriff came and said GO HOME. If I can REMEMBER there used to be many more sledding hills around. | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 2205 Registered: 04-2006 |
I can't believe no one has mentioned all of hills in Rouge Park yet. The place is full of them! Several are off of Spinoza from Warren to Joy and I'm pretty sure that they still plow out the winter sports off of Joy and Lahser. | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 14959 Registered: 12-2003 |
I guess I got the name wrong, but that hill on Hines WAS closed for years until they cut runs into it and made it official, I HOPE that isn't the one that Novine mentioned above. I was talking about the biggest one of those 'planner can't believe nobody mentioned yet...heh! There is one really great hill there that will have the largest crowd. That is the one I'm talking about! Cheers and happy times using gravity... | ||
Lefty2 Member Username: Lefty2 Post Number: 2970 Registered: 07-2007 |
a busy day at the duck  | ||
Sean_of_detroit Member Username: Sean_of_detroit Post Number: 2127 Registered: 03-2008 |
Yes, Garbage Hill was closed off and on. Oddly, I think it was closed until they added steps and a run. There are pipes sticking out of the hill that would get covered by the snow. I think that was the main problem. Now you can stay in the run (like that used for toboggans) and not hit anything. LOL! I miss the toboggan runs they had in the back of Camp Dearborn. They sold the land they are on to the neighboring golf courses. | ||
Jtf1972 Member Username: Jtf1972 Post Number: 88 Registered: 08-2008 |
I was at Balduck once. There had been an ice storm. It was a Friday. My friend & I were blitzed out of our minds. he said "Let's go sledding." a couple of old fools trying to kill ourselves... What a grand day! I used to sled down the back of Derby Hill too. One time the friend I was with pushed me and I went down too fast to turn before hitting the fence. Ouch. | ||
Acme_pie Member Username: Acme_pie Post Number: 4 Registered: 12-2008 |
Is there more than one Derby Hill? The only one I know of was at Mound Rd. and Outer Drive and it's been closed for quite a few years. | ||
Oladub Member Username: Oladub Post Number: 983 Registered: 08-2006 |
I've posted these Balduck pictures before. This is from the first roll of film I ever took with my Brownie camera on Christmas day 1958. I lived nearby on Farmbrook. This is the backside of the hill and the ice tobaggan run. People walked up the treaded lane dragging toboggans up the snowy center lane. You can kind of see how far the toboggans go. Usually there were a lot more people there. It wasn't a good idea to sled through the rocks on the back side of the hill.   | ||
Kathinozarks Member Username: Kathinozarks Post Number: 1751 Registered: 11-2006 |
Thanks for the Balduck pictures! The toboggan runs always scared me for some reason. Never went down them. | ||
Gibran Member Username: Gibran Post Number: 4314 Registered: 02-2007 |
those were great runs...Kathy.. I worried more about the crazy kids trying to run you down while climbing the hill.... mom would always keep a themos of hot choco....as a kid I always thought it was a large hill ...until I went to the one at Kensington..now that was a run...Merry Ozark Christmas...hope you have a good one... | ||
Turkeycall Member Username: Turkeycall Post Number: 113 Registered: 09-2008 |
Gistok, You asked in a previous post if I went to Marquette. No, I attended Bethany Lutheran at Chatsworth and E. Outer Drive for K-8. I went to Finney '64 to '65 for ninth grade and then on to Lutheran East for 10, 11, and 12. Graduated in '68. | ||
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy Post Number: 6541 Registered: 11-2004 |
Years ago, I heard of a great sledding hill in Ferndale. Any help here? | ||
Detrola Member Username: Detrola Post Number: 89 Registered: 02-2006 |
There was almost a sledding hill at Patton Park. During the recent construction of the CSO project at the park a massive amount of earth was displaced. The Water & Sewerage Department and the construction companies determined that it would cost almost nothing to leave a large portion of the dirt mountain for use as a sledding hill. They planned to grade, sod and light the hill. A win win if ever there was one. Imagine, the city could do the right thing for the most diverse and densely populated area of the city and it would cost almost nothing. The problem was the contract for hauling the dirt away was already awarded to Bobby Ferguson. A contact rumored to be worth over $300k. First the city planning department's Vincent Annuah(sp) argued that that area of the park was designated as green space according to the "master plan" Well a big hill with grass is green space argued many. When the green space argument failed the city prevailed when it claimed soil samples revealed that the land was contaminated. The land was a farm before it was a park. It is no more or less contaminated than most people's front yards. In fact it is far less contaminated than the playground at the new Beard (Clemente) grade school. And that is the sad story of The Sledding Hill That Almost Was or How To Do The Wrong Thing And Waste $300k | ||
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy Post Number: 6553 Registered: 11-2004 |
Detrola, did they say HOW the soil was contaminated? Was it from other properties around there? This is such a sad story to hear what could've and should've been a nice addition to that area too. | ||
Hpgrmln Member Username: Hpgrmln Post Number: 637 Registered: 06-2007 |
I dont think you can use the Madison Heights/Lamphere hill anymore. The whole top is fenced off now. | ||
7051 Member Username: 7051 Post Number: 179 Registered: 02-2006 |
About 200 people at Lamphere hill on Sat. night sledding. The fence was added about 5 years ago on the steep side because a new fire station was built and a wall was built in a small area on the bottom of the steep side. You can still sled most of the steep side by walking around the fence(the fence makes the steep side run about 20 feet shorter). The regular sledding side is 100% usable. | ||
Lefty2 Member Username: Lefty2 Post Number: 2989 Registered: 07-2007 |
It sucks how Balduck was ruined from its glory days. | ||
Rijobo Member Username: Rijobo Post Number: 25 Registered: 11-2003 |
Warsaw Park had a nice one in the 50's & early 60"s | ||
Doccasualty Member Username: Doccasualty Post Number: 2 Registered: 12-2008 |
"Years ago, I heard of a great sledding hill in Ferndale. Any help here?" Green Acres Park in Hazel Park on Woodward Heights, on the Ferndale border. | ||
393bird Member Username: 393bird Post Number: 40 Registered: 09-2007 |
I lived in Redford Township, and went to Lolla Valley some, but used a couple of the hills on Western Golf Course just off Beech Daily, between Five Mile and Schoolcraft. The hills is Western were mid sized. They Golf Course also had a small wooden ski jump built on one of the hills closer to the Club House that was supposed to be for Members Only. The end of it was only about 15 ft above the ground on the hill, but a good learning jump. We snuck over to it one night with a Toboggan. About 8 of us went down on it, and had a blast till it hit the ground. The front guy got banged up pretty bad. The toboggan was in several pieces scattered around the bottom of the hill. My buddy had a rough time telling his parents what happened to the toboggan. We never tried that again. My wife claims that the effects of the impact still show up today with me. | ||
Gene Member Username: Gene Post Number: 154 Registered: 10-2006 |
Martin Road Park in Ferndale great hill. Took my son and his friends there many times when he was young. http://www.ferndale-mi.com/com munity/Map/Map-MartinRdParkCol or.pdf |
