Use Institute South Airport Road, crossing the Boardman River at Logan's Landing.
Traverse City is in the midst of a typical urban sprawl pattern.
In the 1970s the Grand Traverse County Road Commission set a fateful course when it built South Airport Road as a bypass south of the city. Within a decade it had emerged as the region's new Main Street, but accessible only by car . In 1950 this was the compact com- mercial center for 17,000 city residents. It also served nearly 50,000 residents of the five-county Grand Traverse region who came for goods and services they could not obtain in their small towns. People living in the city could walk, bike, or take a bus from their homes to schools, stores, and offices, which limited the need to drive.