Whitefish Bay Scenic Byway Enhancements Plan
Short Elliott Hendrickson, Inc.

This enhancement plan sets a model for how the United States Forest Service can update existing byway and park facilities to meet contemporary standards for accessibility, sustainability, and contextual design.  Working with Forest Service staff, stakeholders, and Michigan State University landscape architecture students, the project landscape architects led an interactive planning and design process to discover locally held notions of “place” in materials, style, and identity graphics.  The designs move the byway beyond the standard government-issue treatments to a new aesthetic rooted in the Upper Peninsula’s handcrafted building traditions and natural history.