The Windsor area offers a great combination of widely different appeals. If you want a medium-sized Metropolitan area with a full range of city facilities—that’s right here! If you want a huge city, with all its associated attractions, then you’ll find Detroit a mere fifteen minutes away by bridge or tunnel. And if you want real small-town life, it’s here too, in a number of nearby towns with a really short downtown-Windsor commute.
If you have school-age children, they will be served by an excellent educational system. If you enjoy the outdoors, there are great sports facilities and mile after mile of waterfront Then too, the cultural life offers you all kinds of possibilities, on both sides of the border And if once in a while you want to kick up your heels and gamble a bit, you have an International Casino or the horses at Windsor Raceway. So check out the overall facilities through the helpful information at each of the following links:
Actually in Michigan, it’s America’s oldest. Lots more to do as well
Cool voyage on the Detroit River, great outing for the whole family
Cruise on the Pride of Windsor - https://www.windsorrivercruises.com/about/
The nice choice of cycling trails is described here.
Take a party of 6 for a day with Muskies, Bass, Walleye
Fishing on Lake St. Clair with Captain Dan - http://www.captaindan.com/
Operated by Parks & Recreation, making fitness possible for all
Absolute Fitness: A complete wellness centre for women.
Fitness for women, with Spa - http://absolutefitness.ca/cms/
The Squash & Fitness Club offers a great range of facilities for active people.
Fitness and Squash - www.windsorsquash.ca/
Roseland Golf & Curling Club has great facilities
Here are the schedules when you can go skating and where.
Information on the 2 indoor and 6 outdoor pools
Have a day at one of the world’s outstanding zoos; 40 exhibits, 1300 animals!
The great Detroit Zoo - www.detroitzoo.org/
Schedules, tickets, team information, whatever you need is here!
Baseball: The Detroit Tigers -http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=det
Here you’ll find everything about the Pistons & entire NBA!
Basketball: The Detroit Pistons site - http://www.nba.com/pistons/news/playoffcentral_2005.html
The complete Lions story, plus access to all Pro football teams.
Football: The Detroit Lions - www.detroitlions.com/
Check out the Red Wings and any other NHL team.
Hockey: The Detroit Red Wings – www.detroitredwings.com
Check out the hometown team in action. Great fun!
Hockey: Windsor Spitfires OHL team - http://www.windsorspitfires.com/
For 23 years Arcite has been the place for exciting new visual arts
Artcite, Contemporary Arts -http://www.artcite.ca/
For a wide and ever-changing view of Canadian art, this is the place.
Art Gallery of Windsor -http://www.agw.ca/
This is the place to see a wide variety of touring musical and theatrical events.
Chrysler Theatre -http://www.chryslertheatre.com/
This park, along the Detroit River, features 30+ large-scale sculpture works.
Odette Sculpture Park - https://www.citywindsor.ca/residents/culture/windsor-sculpture-park/pages/windsor-sculpture-park.aspx
One of Canada’s top regional orchestras!
Windsor Symphony Orchestra - http://www.windsorsymphony.com/
There are 10 exhibit galleries, plus the Marine Museum at Belle Isle
Detroit Historical Museums -http://www.detroithistorical.org/
This 600,000 square foot cultural beacon has more than 100 galleries!
Detroit Institute of Arts - http://www.dia.org/
The culture of newly arrived residents in America.
International Institute of Metropolitan Detroit - http://www.iimd.org/
Locate a restaurant by type of food.
By Restaurant Type listings http://www.windsoreats.com/
These listings show name and briefly describe each restaurant.
By Restaurant Name listings http://www.windsoreats.com/
Includes a brief description of each and flags the most economical!
Downtown Windsor restaurantshttp://www.windsoreats.com/
A small selection, recommended by this fine guide.
Recommended Mobil Guide selectionshttp://www.windsoreats.com/
A huge selection, by type, with descriptions and reviews.
Detroit dininghttp://www.urbanspoon.com/n/19/1816/Detroit/Downtown-Detroit-restaurants
Here are the big events right now!
Major events and attractions - https://windsorite.ca/events/
Includes overview of best places and birding hotlines!
Birding Guide to the area - http://www.ojibway.ca/birding.htm
Best place to see migrating geese in the thousands, Spring & Fall
Jack Miner Bird Sanctuary - http://www.jackminer.com/
A wonderful centre, plus links to other nature sites
Ojibway Nature Centre - http://www.ojibway.ca/index.htm
Superb place to visit for bird migrations
Point Pelee National Park - http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/pn-np/on/pelee/index.aspx
Escape to a tranquil world in the middle of Lake Erie!
A description of the facilities available at various Windsor parks
Park facilities - http://www.citywindsor.ca/000522.asp
A complete list of Windsor parks and their features (PDF files)
Parks of Windsor - http://www.citywindsor.ca/000522.asp
View all of the shops Windsor-Essex has to offer!
Discover Windsor-Essex shopping here. - https://visitwindsoressex.com/categories/shopping
One of the largest Windsor shopping malls. See full information here.
Devonshire Mall -http://www.devonshiremall.com/
A top-flight premium outlet mall with many big-brand outlets.
Windsor Crossing - http://www.windsorcrossing.com/
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