Tree-lined Traver Blvd., on the city’s northeast side, is home to Logan Elementary, with condos and apartments across from the school and quiet streets of well-kept colonials leading to the aptly named Placid Way Park behind the school.

This is one of the largest elementary school areas in the district, stretching out from the city into portions of Ann Arbor, Northfield, Salem, and Superior townships. Many people have settled on this side of town for its convenient access to metropolitan Detroit.

Subdivisions are located off Dhu Varren, including the 1990s vintage Foxfire and Dhu Varren on the Park. North Oaks’ 472 luxury townhomes and “villas”—clusters of attached condos—are taking on residents both north and south of Dhu Varren, with the final homes currently up for sale. Amenities at the 282-unit Owl Creek apartments, on Nixon at M–14, include a shuttle bus to northside destinations.

Plymouth Road Plaza and Traver Village offer stores and restaurants. Logan School itself is surrounded by modest single-family homes and the 210-unit Traver Ridge apartment complex.

The Logan area stretches north of US–23 and M–14. Beyond the reach of public sewer and water, homes here are on large lots of 2 acres or more. The area on and around Warren offers modest homes with lots of acreage on dirt roads. In the Pinebrook Estates subdivision off Gleaner Hall, north of Pontiac Tr., homes cluster on 1-acre lots around a 22-acre common area that includes several ponds. Right near where US–23 and M–14 cross will be the new, luxury Cornwell Farms subdivision, where a few of the homesites are still on the market. The Northbrooke Estates sub offers large homes (3,800 square feet and up) off Nixon, and the 100-home Tanglewood community, south of M–14 and east of Dixboro Rd., features multistory contemporary homes on large lots.

Logan serves some students from the Arrowwood Hills Cooperative, as well as families in the 475-unit Willowtree complex across from North Campus. Off Huron Pkwy. are the Traver Heights apartments and Parkway Meadows, whose 212 units are targeted at low-income residents and seniors. 

From Logan, students go on to Clague Middle School. Those living east of Nixon go to Huron High; the rest attend Skyline.

Bike lanes: City portions of this area are well-
supplied with bike infrastructure leading to the U-M’s North Campus, with marked bike lanes on Nixon and Dhu Varren and a buffered and protected bike lane on Plymouth Rd.

Walking: Logan School’s Walk Score is 11, and except near Plymouth Rd., most areas here are car dependent.

Park & Rides: 3700 Plymouth Rd., 1885 Green