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Mark Your Calendars for The “Friends of Highland Recreation Area’s” Big Event of the Summer. Join Us as we help Celebrate the Michigan State Parks 90th Anniversary.

August 15th, 2009!!     Click here for more information.

The Friends of Highland Recreation Area (FOHRA), is a growing group of community residents, business owners and organizations who have all joined forces for a very simple concept: to reopen a former recreational estate of Edsel Ford’s, for everyone to enjoy!

 

As you’ll discover throughout our website, the former Edsel Ford Haven Hill Estate has quite a story to tell...

 

Beginning with education, that story would provide a very enlightening experience for school districts throughout the state of Michigan - covering natural and estate history, the Ford family, and even the backgrounds of such visitors as Thomas Edison, Charles Lindbergh, and Admiral Richard E. Byrd.

 

Now a Michigan state park, our efforts will merge the estate’s unique history with the existing park recreation. That includes miles of hiking, biking and horseback riding throughout some very striking, yet soothing scenery that can only be likened to that of our northern peninsula! In the end, it will be a very rewarding experience for anyone who wants to enjoy it, and you’ll see why once you’ve viewed the vision here on our site!

 

Unfortunately, to make the vision happen we must first finish this current chapter in the estate’s history: rehabilitating its three remaining structures. While we’re off to a great start, it is this chapter that requires everyone’s help, and where we hope to add your name to the pages!

 

If you’re a Michigan resident, bear in mind that this is our park. So any help you offer, is for all of us to benefit from!

 

And it doesn’t require any long-term commitments either! You can stop in any workday you want for example, knowing that your efforts will be valued by all ages, long after you leave!

 

Helping fulfill the materials donation list is yet another option!

 

If you’re a non-Michigan resident or would like to make a monetary donation, please visit our Support Page. (click Here) Or you can simply refer friends and family to our website. And maybe one day soon, you and your family will make an announced visit so that we may thank you in person!

 

Finally, please know that we would rather this website be a fun and fascinating visit - not a recruiting tool. But with the clock ticking on this chapter, we need to take every   action possible. So please contact us while you’re here to learn how you can make your mark in the park! Info@FOHRA.org

 

From our community to you, thank you for your interest in Edsel Ford’s Haven Hill!

Spanning Highland and White Lake townships, few historic attractions in the United States offer the combined level of history and natural beauty of Haven Hill. But unless we act now, it won’t be anything more than a paragraph in a local paper. So we encourage you to join our growing list of support and ongoing exploration of this fascinating property, by simply getting involved! We have many rewarding opportunities available for individual and corporate support, i.e. rather than donations we offer several advertising options for promoting your business with Us.

Contact FOHRA for more information: info@FriendsOfHighlandRec.org

The Friends of Highland Recreation Area (FOHRA) are committed to help support Highland Recreation Area State Park by assisting and promoting interpretive, scientific, historical and educational visitor services.

A visit is literally a “day in the park”

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