Woodward Dream Cruise, metro Detroit Guide

The Woodward Dream Cruise is the world’s largest single-day classic-car event, and it happens every August along a 16-mile stretch of Woodward Avenue through nine metro Detroit communities, from Ferndale up to Pontiac. On one Saturday, some 40,000 muscle cars, hot rods, customs, and collector vehicles roll slowly up and down the old cruising boulevard while more than a million spectators line the curbs on lawn chairs — a rolling, nostalgic tribute to the postwar Woodward car culture that gave Detroit its identity. It’s free to watch, the whole avenue turns into one long party, and pre-cruise action starts the Friday before. In the city that built the American car, this is the ultimate home game for it.