Ann Arbor is in southeast Michigan, 35 miles north of the Ohio border and 45 miles west of Detroit, near where the furthest exurban fringes give way to country and small towns. Ann Arbor is centered around the University of Michigan. The U-M campus intermingles with downtown, and the whole area is walkable, though day buses run between the campuses and the central business district.
Further out, the city fades into subdivisions (a mall and business parks in the south), then countryside dotted More...