Tenhave Woods

Tenhave Woods is located within (gated area) Quickstad Park 3900 Marais Avenue (Normandy & Lexington)  Royal Oak, MI 48067

Tenhave Woods is a nature preserve and conservancy park managed by the all volunteer Royal Oak Nature Society and located within Quickstad Park in Royal Oak, Michigan. Tenhave Woods encompasses about 22 acres, which is mostly wooded with lined trails as well as a pond. As a protected area, a mix of trees and woodland native plants and flowers thrive here. Tenhave Woods is open to the public from dusk to dawn daily. Because it is a preserve for pollinators, animals, trees, and plants, visitors are kindly requested to not bring pets into the preserve.

Located near the high school and senior center, Tenhave Woods was named in 1999 after Hessel Tenhave, a high school biology teacher who taught in Royal Oak for 34 years and often utilized the woods to impress the importance and beauty of the environment on his students. Walter Nickel, former naturalist for Cranbrook institutions, said, “This is one of the finest acreages of hard woods that I have ever seen in this area.”

For pollinators, Tenhave Woods has extensive blooming early spring native flowering plants among many others. For more information about Tenhave Woods and the Royal Oak Nature Society please visit romi.gov/nature