April 4, 2015 we head "Down Riveria" shoreline city of River Rouge for visit to Belanger Park.

This lovely carved-out niche sits tucked between a massive Great Lakes Steel facility and the Detroit Edison Plant seen the background.


A lone fisherman tends his lines on this beaming early spring day.


Beyond him the skyline of downtown stretches across the horizon. The landmark Renaissance Center sits across the elbow of Canadian land that marks the big bend toward Lake Erie in straits of Detroit.


Remarkably he had caught a rainbow trout, a species the Detroit River is not know for.


A commerotive plaque dating from 1978 announces the creation of Belanger Park. Bravo to the City of River Rouge for creating this moment of beauty amid the grinding industrial shoreline.