Henry Ford Museum
Looks like a well worthwhile place to spend a day. Suggestions for area CGs? Nothing seems to be very near.
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Veebyes wrote:
I'd be interested in the factory tour however, driving a Chevy do I have to park way out in the outfield somewhere or do I get prefered parking in order to win over non Ford driving visitors?
Really enjoy the factory tours.
Not to worry - you park at the museum and take a shuttle bus to the factory. Highly recommend the tour, one of the best we've ever done. Plan your time so that you're there when they are running the line (morning or after lunch). There is an introductory part with a fabulous multimedia presentation and some exhibits. The meat of the tour is walking around an overhead catwalk in the final assembly area for F-150's, pretty much self guided and take as much time as you want. Fascinating watching how they build to order and match up the major subassemblies (cab, bed, chassis) at the end. I think we spent a couple of hours at that part alone.
Henry Ford is definitely one of our favorite destinations and way bigger than you might imagine. If you stop and look at everything you can easily spend 3 days or more doing the museum and the village, particularly if you do the factory tour. If you're there in the summer, they have an old-time baseball team that plays against others in a league, great fun to watch how it was done in the 1800's, way different than MLB now. Check the schedule for dates.
We've camped at the fairgrounds, nothing special but convenient and clean enough. Agree that parts of Dearborn/Detroit are pretty dodgy (and we're from Chicago!) but the areas around the museum and fairgrounds are fine.
