Saginaw Trail Explained

Saginaw Trail is the collective name for a set of connected roads in Southeast and Central Michigan that runs from Detroit to Saginaw through Pontiac and Flint that was originally a tribal foot trail. To drive it today, drivers would follow:

• from Detroit to Birmingham;
• Old Woodward Avenue through Birmingham;
• from Birmingham to Pontiac;
• into downtown Pontiac;
• Former routing of Saginaw Street through downtown within the Woodward Avenue Loop;
• north of the Woodward Avenue Loop;
• north of Pontiac to Clarkston;
• Dixie Highway, a set of various county roads that were previously US 10 from Clarkston to near Grand Blanc;
• Saginaw Road and Saginaw Street through Grand Blanc, Burton, and Flint to north of Mount Morris;
• from north of Mount Morris near Clio to the Genesee–Saginaw County line;
• Dixie Highway and Genesee Avenue into Saginaw.