The 2025 Ford Fireworks are 10 p.m. Monday, June 23, 2025. Recommended places to watch the fireworks are Hart Plaza, Spirit ...

The MacArthur Bridge that connects Detroit to Belle Isle. Built in the 1920s and designed by a University of Michigan professor, the 19-arch, ...

The problem was so acute that the Detroit Police Department instituted a "suicide squad" to scout the bridge for potential jumpers. In 1938 alone, 15 would-be jumpers were saved.

On Feb. 18, 1942, the Detroit Common Council voted to rename the landmark in honor of the war hero — though almost nobody called it the MacArthur Bridge then. And almost nobody calls it that now.

Replaced by the Great River Bridge in 1993, MacArthur Bridge generate ... 1869, in Detroit, Mich., MacArthur started as a clerk and branch manager for the Bank of Toronto in Canada.

For the first time in decades, Detroiters and visitors can walk 3.5 miles from Gabriel Richard Park just east of the MacArthur Belle Isle Bridge to the site of the former Joe Louis Area.

This popular trail currently spans about 3.75 miles along the Detroit River, from the Riverfront Towers in the west to Gabriel Richard Park in the east (close to the MacArthur Bridge to Belle Isle).