The Abayomi Community Development Corporation is a faith-based, nonprofit organization that provides recreational and educational services, housing and economic development assistance, and health and safety programs for Detroit families.

At Abayomi, meaning "a pleasant meeting place," you'll find afterschool tutoring, computer training, book clubs, mentoring programs for teens, and job training.

The group also runs a youth basketball program, summer camps, and an annual youth retreat.

Take a full-sized school bus and convert it into a mobile gym, complete with padded walls and floors, and what have you got? The ABC Tumblebus. Yes, it sounds nuts, but the kids sure love it.

Classes are offered for children ages 2-1/2 through school-age, and are taught by certified instructors. Call for current class schedule.

For $200, parents can throw a Tumblebus party, complete with one hour of tumbling and party games; balloons, candy, and party favors; and a Tumblebus t-shirt for the birthday kid. Invitations are provided, and a keepsake photo is taken. Maximum: 15 children. Online reservations are required.

For an extra fee, a 13' x 15' inflatable bus (moonbounce) is available. Regularly scheduled gymnastics classes can also be arranged.

This program, run by the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS), offers community youth programs, including soccer training.

Summer programs include a six-week recreational program that includes arts and crafts, recreational sports, reading, and computer instruction; and a two-week "Reading Is Great!" program.

This program, run by the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS), offers community youth programs, including soccer training.

Summer programs include a six-week recreational program that includes arts and crafts, recreational sports, reading, and computer instruction; and a two-week "Reading Is Great!" program.

All World Gymnastics is a 20,000-square-foot gymnastics facility where kids can run, jump on trampolines, play on tumble tracks and foam pits, and more.

All World offers classes for parents and tots, as well as for older kids. Competitive-level classes are available for children up to age 10.

The public can rent the space for birthday parties, sleepovers, story times, and any gym-hosted parties.

You'll find 25 slopes serviced by 10 chair lifts at Alpine Valley, one of metro Detroit's few ski hills.

The facility has a great snowboarding area with a halfpipe and terrain park. Alpine Valley offers lessons for adults and children ages four and up.

AmberWay Stables offers year-round horseback riding lessons for children and adults, as well as boarding, training, showing, and day camps. The facility is devoted to sportsmanship and horsemanship.

Aquatic Adventures offers a wide range of scuba diving instruction for beginner and experienced divers.

Underwater adventure parties include two hours of scuba instruction, diving equipment, cake, and balloons and are located at local pools.

Basketball fans appreciate Basketball City's seven climate-controlled basketball courts, full locker rooms, and a snack bar. Visitors can join in open play for $8, or rent a court for $65 (8 to 12 players).

Basketball clinics are available each Saturday for boys and girls ages six to 17 at a cost of $15/session.

Basketball camps are offered during the summer and over Christmas break. Check the website for details.

Basketball fans appreciate Basketball City's seven climate-controlled basketball courts, full locker rooms, and a snack bar. Visitors can join in open play for $8, or rent a court for $65 (8 to 12 players).

Basketball clinics are available each Saturday for boys and girls ages six to 17 at a cost of $15/session.

Basketball camps are offered during the summer and over Christmas break. Check the website for details.

If you hunt, fish, or camp, this is the place for you. Outdoor World is a huge retail store, and so much more. There's a shooting range, an indoor waterfall, live fish tanks, and so many stuffed animal pelts in this store there's got to be a rich taxidermist walking around metro Detroit.

This grandaddy of outdoor stores also offers workshops, in fly fishing, hunter safety, and more.

The Beverly Hills Club offers a wide variety of programs for families. The club has an indoor pool, tennis courts, fitness room, and a children's section with a play structure, moonwalk, video games, and more.

Kids' classes are offered in aerobics, baseball, basketball, dance, football, martial arts, swimming, tennis, and yoga. Parent/tot classes are also available.

A latchkey program offers the chance for supervised afterschool fun. Day camps give kids a great place to hang out during the summer and on vacation days.

Both members and nonmembers may hold a party at the BHC.

Hours are seasonal:

Labor Day to Memorial Day: Mon-Thu 5:30am-11pm; Fri 5:30am-10pm; Sat 6:30am-9:30pm; Sun 7am-8:30pm.


Memorial Day to Labor Day: Mon-Fri 5:30am-11pm; Fri 5:30am-11pm; Sat 6:30am-8pm; Sun 7am-7pm

The Beverly Hills Club offers a wide variety of programs for families. The club has an indoor pool, tennis courts, fitness room, and a children's section with a play structure, moonwalk, video games, and more.

Kids' classes are offered in aerobics, baseball, basketball, dance, football, martial arts, swimming, tennis, and yoga. Parent/tot classes are also available.

A latchkey program offers the chance for supervised afterschool fun. Day camps give kids a great place to hang out during the summer and on vacation days.

Both members and nonmembers may hold a party at the BHC.

Hours are seasonal:

Labor Day to Memorial Day: Mon-Thu 5:30am-11pm; Fri 5:30am-10pm; Sat 6:30am-9:30pm; Sun 7am-8:30pm.


Memorial Day to Labor Day: Mon-Fri 5:30am-11pm; Fri 5:30am-11pm; Sat 6:30am-8pm; Sun 7am-7pm

The Beverly Hills Club offers a wide variety of programs for families. The club has an indoor pool, tennis courts, fitness room, and a children's section with a play structure, moonwalk, video games, and more.

Kids' classes are offered in aerobics, baseball, basketball, dance, football, martial arts, swimming, tennis, and yoga. Parent/tot classes are also available.

A latchkey program offers the chance for supervised afterschool fun. Day camps give kids a great place to hang out during the summer and on vacation days.

Both members and nonmembers may hold a party at the BHC.

Hours are seasonal:

Labor Day to Memorial Day: Mon-Thu 5:30am-11pm; Fri 5:30am-10pm; Sat 6:30am-9:30pm; Sun 7am-8:30pm.


Memorial Day to Labor Day: Mon-Fri 5:30am-11pm; Fri 5:30am-11pm; Sat 6:30am-8pm; Sun 7am-7pm

The Beverly Hills Club offers a wide variety of programs for families. The club has an indoor pool, tennis courts, fitness room, and a children's section with a play structure, moonwalk, video games, and more.

Kids' classes are offered in aerobics, baseball, basketball, dance, football, martial arts, swimming, tennis, and yoga. Parent/tot classes are also available.

A latchkey program offers the chance for supervised afterschool fun. Day camps give kids a great place to hang out during the summer and on vacation days.

Both members and nonmembers may hold a party at the BHC.

Hours are seasonal:

Labor Day to Memorial Day: Mon-Thu 5:30am-11pm; Fri 5:30am-10pm; Sat 6:30am-9:30pm; Sun 7am-8:30pm.


Memorial Day to Labor Day: Mon-Fri 5:30am-11pm; Fri 5:30am-11pm; Sat 6:30am-8pm; Sun 7am-7pm

The Beverly Hills Club offers a wide variety of programs for families. The club has an indoor pool, tennis courts, fitness room, and a children's section with a play structure, moonwalk, video games, and more.

Kids' classes are offered in aerobics, baseball, basketball, dance, football, martial arts, swimming, tennis, and yoga. Parent/tot classes are also available.

A latchkey program offers the chance for supervised afterschool fun. Day camps give kids a great place to hang out during the summer and on vacation days.

Both members and nonmembers may hold a party at the BHC.

Hours are seasonal:

Labor Day to Memorial Day: Mon-Thu 5:30am-11pm; Fri 5:30am-10pm; Sat 6:30am-9:30pm; Sun 7am-8:30pm.


Memorial Day to Labor Day: Mon-Fri 5:30am-11pm; Fri 5:30am-11pm; Sat 6:30am-8pm; Sun 7am-7pm

The Birmingham Family YMCA offers a variety of services to members of the community. There is a pool, fitness center, gymnasium, and sauna. This branch of the Y also has a babysitting program and library.

Classes are offered in such areas as aerobics, aquatics, basketball, gymnastics, pilates, yoga, and spinning. There is also a preschool enrichment class.

Bloomfield Gymnastics offers gymnastics programs for boys and girls of all ages (18 months to 18 years). Classes include parent-tot, preschool, progressive boys and girls, and cheerleading/tumbling.

The center offers fun activities such as Open Gym, monthly sleepovers, field trips, and birthday parties. There's also an on-site pro shop.

Just opened in December 2005, the downtown Detroit Boll Family YMCA is remarkable.

Not only does it have the typical Y amenities, this shiny new facility houses a large theater, a 38-foot climbing wall, running track, massage therapy, a day care center, and a separate locker room for families and those with special needs.

You'll find classes in dance, spinning, martial arts, aerobics, aquatics, rowing, and too many more to list. Any current YMCA membership can be upgraded to include the Boll facility.

Some unique (for Ys) programs are offered as well, such as those in web design, photography, ceramics, and African dance.

Rent the center for birthday parties or other events. Contact the center directly for details and membership prices.

Just opened in December 2005, the downtown Detroit Boll Family YMCA is remarkable.

Not only does it have the typical Y amenities, this shiny new facility houses a large theater, a 38-foot climbing wall, running track, massage therapy, a day care center, and a separate locker room for families and those with special needs.

You'll find classes in dance, spinning, martial arts, aerobics, aquatics, rowing, and too many more to list. Any current YMCA membership can be upgraded to include the Boll facility.

Some unique (for Ys) programs are offered as well, such as those in web design, photography, ceramics, and African dance.

Rent the center for birthday parties or other events. Contact the center directly for details and membership prices.

Just opened in December 2005, the downtown Detroit Boll Family YMCA is remarkable.

Not only does it have the typical Y amenities, this shiny new facility houses a large theater, a 38-foot climbing wall, running track, massage therapy, a day care center, and a separate locker room for families and those with special needs.

You'll find classes in dance, spinning, martial arts, aerobics, aquatics, rowing, and too many more to list. Any current YMCA membership can be upgraded to include the Boll facility.

Some unique (for Ys) programs are offered as well, such as those in web design, photography, ceramics, and African dance.

Rent the center for birthday parties or other events. Contact the center directly for details and membership prices.

Just opened in December 2005, the downtown Detroit Boll Family YMCA is remarkable.

Not only does it have the typical Y amenities, this shiny new facility houses a large theater, a 38-foot climbing wall, running track, massage therapy, a day care center, and a separate locker room for families and those with special needs.

You'll find classes in dance, spinning, martial arts, aerobics, aquatics, rowing, and too many more to list. Any current YMCA membership can be upgraded to include the Boll facility.

Some unique (for Ys) programs are offered as well, such as those in web design, photography, ceramics, and African dance.

Rent the center for birthday parties or other events. Contact the center directly for details and membership prices.

Just opened in December 2005, the downtown Detroit Boll Family YMCA is remarkable.

Not only does it have the typical Y amenities, this shiny new facility houses a large theater, a 38-foot climbing wall, running track, massage therapy, a day care center, and a separate locker room for families and those with special needs.

You'll find classes in dance, spinning, martial arts, aerobics, aquatics, rowing, and too many more to list. Any current YMCA membership can be upgraded to include the Boll facility.

Some unique (for Ys) programs are offered as well, such as those in web design, photography, ceramics, and African dance.

Rent the center for birthday parties or other events. Contact the center directly for details and membership prices.

Just opened in December 2005, the downtown Detroit Boll Family YMCA is remarkable.

Not only does it have the typical Y amenities, this shiny new facility houses a large theater, a 38-foot climbing wall, running track, massage therapy, a day care center, and a separate locker room for families and those with special needs.

You'll find classes in dance, spinning, martial arts, aerobics, aquatics, rowing, and too many more to list. Any current YMCA membership can be upgraded to include the Boll facility.

Some unique (for Ys) programs are offered as well, such as those in web design, photography, ceramics, and African dance.

Rent the center for birthday parties or other events. Contact the center directly for details and membership prices.

Just opened in December 2005, the downtown Detroit Boll Family YMCA is remarkable.

Not only does it have the typical Y amenities, this shiny new facility houses a large theater, a 38-foot climbing wall, running track, massage therapy, a day care center, and a separate locker room for families and those with special needs.

You'll find classes in dance, spinning, martial arts, aerobics, aquatics, rowing, and too many more to list. Any current YMCA membership can be upgraded to include the Boll facility.

Some unique (for Ys) programs are offered as well, such as those in web design, photography, ceramics, and African dance.

Rent the center for birthday parties or other events. Contact the center directly for details and membership prices.

Bonaventure is a family-focused skating center that offers lessons for preschoolers, beginning skaters, adults, and speedskaters.

Bonaventure offers a birthday party package for $125. It includes pizza, soft drink, ice cream cup, invitations, and place settings. A cake can be brought in.

Offers a community swimming pool, boxing, basketball, open gym, a game room, and arts and crafts.

Offers a community swimming pool, boxing, basketball, open gym, a game room, and arts and crafts.

Brighton Recreation Area Riding Stable offers guided
horseback trail rides from April through November. Guided trail rides range from 45 to 90 minutes for folks of all riding abilities ages eight and up. Hand-led pony (or horse) rides are available for little ones.

Basic Western horsemanship lessons are offered to beginning riders. Prices start at $35/hour for semi-private
lessons and $40/hour for private lessons.

Canfield Ice Arena is the home of the Motor City Chiefs junior hockey team, the Hat Trick Hockey League, the Family Heating Hockey Club, and others.

The arena offers ice skating classes for ages three and up. Hockey leagues include those six and up.

The Carls Family YMCA offers a variety of services to members of the community. Opened in 2002, this is a state-of-the-art facility located in the heart of downtown Milford. There is an indoor pool, fitness center, and gymnasium. This branch of the Y also has a childcare program.

Classes are offered in aerobics, aquatics, basketball, gymnastics, martial arts, pilates, and yoga. There are numerous opportunities for homeschoolers and also the preschool set, including parent/tot classes.

There are several birthday party packages at this Y, including a standard party package, a gym party, and a pool party.

The Carls Family YMCA offers a variety of services to members of the community. Opened in 2002, this is a state-of-the-art facility located in the heart of downtown Milford. There is an indoor pool, fitness center, and gymnasium. This branch of the Y also has a childcare program.

Classes are offered in aerobics, aquatics, basketball, gymnastics, martial arts, pilates, and yoga. There are numerous opportunities for homeschoolers and also the preschool set, including parent/tot classes.

There are several birthday party packages at this Y, including a standard party package, a gym party, and a pool party.

The Carls Family YMCA offers a variety of services to members of the community. Opened in 2002, this is a state-of-the-art facility located in the heart of downtown Milford. There is an indoor pool, fitness center, and gymnasium. This branch of the Y also has a childcare program.

Classes are offered in aerobics, aquatics, basketball, gymnastics, martial arts, pilates, and yoga. There are numerous opportunities for homeschoolers and also the preschool set, including parent/tot classes.

There are several birthday party packages at this Y, including a standard party package, a gym party, and a pool party.

The Carls Family YMCA offers a variety of services to members of the community. Opened in 2002, this is a state-of-the-art facility located in the heart of downtown Milford. There is an indoor pool, fitness center, and gymnasium. This branch of the Y also has a childcare program.

Classes are offered in aerobics, aquatics, basketball, gymnastics, martial arts, pilates, and yoga. There are numerous opportunities for homeschoolers and also the preschool set, including parent/tot classes.

There are several birthday party packages at this Y, including a standard party package, a gym party, and a pool party.

The Carls Family YMCA offers a variety of services to members of the community. Opened in 2002, this is a state-of-the-art facility located in the heart of downtown Milford. There is an indoor pool, fitness center, and gymnasium. This branch of the Y also has a childcare program.

Classes are offered in aerobics, aquatics, basketball, gymnastics, martial arts, pilates, and yoga. There are numerous opportunities for homeschoolers and also the preschool set, including parent/tot classes.

There are several birthday party packages at this Y, including a standard party package, a gym party, and a pool party.

The Carls Family YMCA offers a variety of services to members of the community. Opened in 2002, this is a state-of-the-art facility located in the heart of downtown Milford. There is an indoor pool, fitness center, and gymnasium. This branch of the Y also has a childcare program.

Classes are offered in aerobics, aquatics, basketball, gymnastics, martial arts, pilates, and yoga. There are numerous opportunities for homeschoolers and also the preschool set, including parent/tot classes.

There are several birthday party packages at this Y, including a standard party package, a gym party, and a pool party.

The Family Aquatic Center in eastside Detroit's Chandler Park features two water slides and a water play area for smaller children. There are concesssions and a gift shop.

The center offers weekday swim classes, and an aquatic summer camp is held June through August.

Grades: PreK-12

Enrollment: 1,620

Teacher/Student Ratio: 1:9


Cranbrook is an independent day and boarding school that has programs for pre-kindergarten through high school students. The institution is known for its challenging academic, arts, and athletics programs - and for its beautiful 315-acre campus, which in 1989 was designated as a National Historic Landmark.

On the grounds are the Cranbrook Art Museum, the Cranbrook Institute of Science, and the Cranbrook House and Gardens.

Cranbrook offers a good number of summer opportunities, including a baseball camp, lacrosse camp, soccer academy, theatre school, art studio camp, volleyball camp, and young authors camp.

On campus is an indoor swimming facility used by the competitive Speedsters swim team and also open to the public (purchase a membership or pay a daily fee). Swim camps, leagues, and le