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There are massive silver maples and bur oaks that are at least 175 years old. There are rare Kentucky coffee and butternut trees. Wood thrushes and yellow warblers sing. You can hear waves breaking on the beach.

Is this really Windsor?

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It is.

It’s the loveliest, most storied, most unique park in the city: Peche Island, at the head of the Detroit River.

And starting Wednesday, anyone can get there.

You never know what’s going to happen, what you’re going to see

Take your time, advised city naturalist Karen Cedar. Walk slowly, listen, breathe. Delight in it. This is a special place.

“It’s magical,” she said Monday during a preview for the media. “When you walk through, you really feel that you’re not in the City of Windsor, that you’re someplace unique and different. Nature is just all around you.”

Photo by Dan Janisse / Windsor Star

Starting Wednesday, you don’t have to have a boat to get to Peche Island. The city’s new, 23-foot Princecraft pontoon boat, anchored at Lakeview Park Marina, will ferry passengers there.