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A guide will lead your stroll around the former Michigan Military Academy (1878-1908) on the grounds of Orchard Lake St. Mary’s campus. During the brief 30-year life of the school it was deemed the “West Point of the West.”

Program length: one hour
Available any day
Group rates: 1-15 people - $75
15-30 people - $125

Railroad Bed and West Bloomfield Nature Trail Walk

A guide will lead you along the West Bloomfield Nature Trail (from Orchard Lake north to Sylvan Lake, two miles) discussing the nine historical markers highlighting the former Grand Trunk Michigan railroad bed. It was parallel to what was once a light-rail, mass transit system known as the Detroit United Railway’s interurban line, or DUR. The Interurban carried passengers and freight throughout southeast Michigan from 1899 to 1929.

Program length: one hour
Available any day
Group: 1-24
Group rate: $60

Take a 20-minute pontoon boat ride on Orchard Lake to Apple Island. Then walk the island with a docent to see such natural features as unusually large hardwood trees and manmade wells, cisterns and foundations from the 1800s and early 1900s.

Program length: approximately two hours
Available: June-September

Group rates:
one boat: 1-15 people, M-F $200, Saturday $450, Sunday $550
two boats: 16-30 people, M-F $400, Saturday $650, Sunday $850

Visit the museum, guided by a docent. Featured items of local interest include Native American implements, Keego Movie Theater relics, farming equipment, early maps, photographs and art work. The museum building is on the site of the Orchard Lake Hotel, opened in l869 and operated as a hotel until 1929 when it was purchased by Orchard Lake Village. The building is made from materials salvaged from the hotel.

Program length: one hour
Available: any day
Group rate: 1-12 people - $60

Take a pontoon boat ride on Orchard Lake to Apple Island. Then walk the island with a docent to see such natural features as unusually large hardwood trees and manmade wells, cisterns and foundations from the 1800s and early 1900s.

Visit the museum at the corners of Long Lake and Orchard Lake Roads. Featured items of local interest include Native American implements, Keego Movie Theater relics, farming equipment, and early maps, photographs and art work.

Groups:
one boat 1-18 people
two boats 18-36 people

Program available: Fall & Spring

Program length: Three hours for each class

Group rates:
one boat M-F $500
two boats M-F $825

Group tours are available for organizations, schools, families, and friends at the Orchard Lake Museum and Apple Island, along with guided walks on the grounds of the Michigan Military Academy or the Detroit Interurban Railroad line on the West Bloomfield Nature Trail. For further information on fees and schedule contact Sebrina Borth, 248.922.1647 or email at: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .