Exercise Guide: Montibeller Park

This is NOT an in-person event.

Our Exercise Guides are intended to assist and encourage exploration of parks and natural areas in the Huron Valley Group region. Please enjoy them on your own or with others.

A special thanks to Jim Weiner of Southeast Michigan Land Conservancy! He alerted me to this park.

If you want an easy walk with some nice spring ephemerals, visit Montibeller Park in Pittsfield Township. It is on Ellsworth, just east of Carpenter. From the parking lot, head north, then west over the footbridge across Paint Creek, then north again to the "Nature Trails" sign.

Taking the left fork at the Nature Trails sign, the first bit of the nature trails has some trash in the woods - you're behind the Carpenter Rd. Meijer. But the trash fades and ephemerals increase as you get farther into the woods.

Taking the right fork you see essentially no trash and, as of 4/27/2021, masses of Trillium in bloom.