FOHRA Lease of Haven Hill Structures

PRESS RELEASE
The Friends of Highland Recreation Area (FOHRA), a 501(c)(3) volunteer organization based in Highland, Michigan, is now operating under Lease agreement with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources for the historic Edsel Ford Haven Hill Estate structures within the Haven Hill section of the park at 5200 Highland Road (M-59) in White Lake, Michigan.
The Haven Hill section of [...]

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Fall Color Started at Haven Hill Lake

The colors are beginning to change on the shores of Haven Hill Lake in the Highland Recreation Area. Get your cameras (or just yourself) and go capture one of the area’s best fall color photos!

Despite a cool day yesterday, the colors still popped. This is the western edge of the Lake which has a nice [...]

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FOHRA on the Highland Equestrian Conservancy Barn Tour

The Friends of Highland Recreation Area showcased the Haven Hill Carriage House and the Edsel Ford Barn on this year’s Highland Equestrian Conservancy Barn Tour this last Sunday. The building was selected as a surprise location on the Barn Tour circuit. Special thanks goes to the HEC for having Haven Hill on the Tour this [...]

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Haven Hill Road Repair Video!

Watch a quick video of the Haven Hill Road repairs inside the Highland Recreation Area. Special thanks again to Cadillac Asphalt, LLC!

Come on out and join the volunteer effort.
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FOHRA “Paves the Road” to Haven Hill

The Friends of Highland Recreation Area, the MDNR, and Cadillac Asphalt, L.L.C. worked together to put some much-needed repairs into the Haven Hill Road up to the historic Edsel Ford Carriage House and Lodge site this last weekend.

Some areas required small patches, others whole sections of roadway.

Repairs were in dire need, as sections of [...]

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Haven Hill Road Work Day, Sunday September 13

The Friends of Highland Recreation Area (FOHRA) are sponsoring a big volunteer work day on Sunday, September 13 to clean and repair the Haven Hill Road up to the Edsel Ford Carriage House and Lodge footprint. FOHRA will soon receive the Lease of the historic Haven Hill structures, which will include the road up to [...]

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Haven Hill Gatehouse Gets Much Needed Highland Recreation Area Friends Group Care

The Friends of Highland Recreation Area spent most of this last Sunday weatherizing and landscaping around the former Gatehouse of the Edsel Ford Haven Hill Estate. Since it’s construction in the 1920’s, the structure was originally the main entrance for Edsel’s sprawling complex which now lies within the Highland Recreation Area. The building had been [...]

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Edsel Ford Barn Efforts Begin a New Green Season

FOHRA members with assistance from an Oakland County WWAM  team (Weekends and Weekday Alternative for Misdemeanants) resumed major sorting and reclamation efforts at the Edsel Ford Barn on March 28th inside the Highland Recreation Area. High winds during a June 8, 2008 storm dropped approximately 3/4 of the barn’s rear structure into a large debris [...]

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FOHRA and MDNR to Develop Haven Hill Stuctures Lease!

In a meeting on Wednesday, February 11,  the members of FOHRA were given a green light to begin developing a lease agreement with the Michigan DNR for the historic properties of the Haven Hill complex within Highland State Recreation Area.
Parks Chief Ron Olson reminded all the attendees of our mutual responsibility to be custodians of [...]

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Winter Video Experiment

A new thing for the blog… video!

Just a test for now.

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