• Dine at one of dozens of restaurants while visiting the Renaissance Center. The centre also houses a 1,300-room hotel and a variety of shops, as well as being General Motors' world headquarters.

• Ride a bike at Belle Isle, the nation's largest urban island park. It also offers canoeing, an aquarium and the Dossin Great Lakes Museum.

• Families will love to explore the Detroit Zoological Park (website: www.detroitzoo.org), containing more than 5,000 animals in natural settings. Visitors can walk or tour by tractor-train.

• Enjoy Greek food, entertainment and speciality shops in Detroit's Greektown.

• Get your feet wet travelling along Michigan's Great Lakes coastline. The 60,000km (36,000 miles) of rivers and 11,000 inland lakes offer great boating, canoeing, fishing and watersports opportunities.

• Visit Ann Arbor, the home of the University of Michigan (website: www.umich.edu), and stop and relax in a multitude of bookstores and cosy cafes.

• Head for the recreational haven of Traverse City, which features sand dunes, resorts, golf and skiing.
 
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