Around Tecumseh

Most Ann Arbor shoppers have never heard of it. Second Chance Consignment has been sitting on the edge of downtown Tecumseh for twelve years, and the people who know about it tend to keep it to themselves. Not in a snobby way. More like the way you guard a good mechanic. If you tell everyone, […]

Arrive Friday. Leave Sunday. Bring an appetite. This is the Tecumseh weekend for people driving in from Ann Arbor, Plymouth, Northville, or the west-side Detroit suburbs. Two nights, no agenda after noon, and enough good food that you will not cook for three days after you get home. Friday evening Check into wherever you are […]

Bring layers. The river does its own thing with temperature. This is the Tecumseh itinerary for people who want to be outside – the trail, the park, the golf course if that is your thing, and a lunch that does not require a reservation. No museums. No shopping. Just the parts of town that involve […]

The shops close by five. Plan accordingly. This is the Tecumseh itinerary for people who came to buy things – not souvenirs, not tchotchkes, but the kind of stuff you find in a town where independent retail somehow survived. Lunch in the middle, something to drink at the end. 10:00 – Start on Chicago Boulevard […]

Five stops. None more than ten minutes apart. This is the Saturday itinerary built around morning food – the market, the breakfast spot, the chocolate maker, and a slow afternoon that earns its dinner reservation. Reserve dinner; everything else is walk-in. 9:00 – Coffee, then the market lap Park by the courthouse on Chicago Boulevard. […]

Park once on Chicago Boulevard. That is the entire logistics section of this guide. Everything worth doing in three hours is walkable from one parking spot, and the meter situation is lenient enough that you will not think about it again. Start with coffee Get there by nine. The coffee situation on Chicago is uncomplicated […]

This is why touring acts route through Tecumseh. The Shirley Todd Herrick Theater inside the Tecumseh Center for the Arts has 572 seats, a real fly tower, and an acoustic spec that surprises performers who expected something smaller-town. When a national tour is routing between Detroit and Chicago and the booking agent needs a midweek […]

Rain ruined the plan? Tecumseh has indoor moves. May in southeast Michigan is roughly half rain by volume, which means about every other Saturday someone in Ann Arbor, Saline, or Plymouth wakes up, opens the weather app, sees that gray May cold settling in for the whole day, and writes the day off. Don’t. Tecumseh’s […]

Skip the freeway slog and the same six restaurants. If you live in Royal Oak, Birmingham, Beverly Hills, or anywhere along the Woodward corridor, you’ve probably done Ann Arbor enough times that the parking decks have started to feel like a chore. Tecumseh sits about an hour further west and lands you on a downtown […]

Here’s where to actually eat breakfast in Tecumseh. Not a roundup of every place that technically serves eggs. Three spots, three different kinds of morning, and a quick read on which one matches what you’re trying to do that day. Tecumseh sits in Lenawee County, about 35 minutes southeast of Ann Arbor on US-23 South […]