Belle Isle's aquarium, athletic fields and nature center conservatory offer a range of activities for state park-goers.

As Belle Isle moved from city control to a state park in February 2014, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources had its hands full. The city of Detroit had filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy the ...

DETROIT (WWJ) - As of today, Belle Isle is officially a state park. The state will run the park as part of a 30-year lease from the city of Detroit. The change means people who go to the park will ...

The city still owns Belle Isle but is in a 30-year lease agreement with the DNR, which manages and operates it as a state park. Elliott spoke to The Detroit News before starting at the conservancy ...

a nonprofit advocacy group for Detroit's Belle Isle, endorsed a plan that would lease the 982-acre park to the state for 30 years. The move comes amid a public backlash against the proposed lease ...

Among these public amenities, Belle Isle operates with a constellation of partners. The idea of handing control to the state was to relieve the city of expenses to preserve the park amid Detroit's ...

DETROIT (AP) - A gem to some and wreck to others, Detroit's Belle Isle has become the latest bone of contention between state officials offering to operate the poorly managed park and what some in ...

Detroit — The city's Belle Isle Park is among the busiest state parks in the nation, according to visitor data from last year tracked by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

LANCASTER COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A bald eagle was released at Belle Isle State Park in Lancaster County on Thursday after six weeks of treatment and care at the Wildlife Center of Virginia.

Leaking pipes, closed bathrooms, messes everywhere greeted state officials when they took over Belle Isle in 2014.