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Your Guide to Rochester-Area Traffic on Brooksie Way Day

From Walton to Avon to Tienken to Adams, here's when your favorite roads will close and open on Sunday.

Here's the most important thing you need to keep in mind: all roads in Rochester and Rochester Hills will be open by noon.

But before then, the roads will close and re-open with the runners and walkers for the fifth-annual Brooksie Way. 

Here's a list of the closures, along with a detailed map of the course, as provided by race organizers. 

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Walton and Adams

  • Closing: 7:30 a.m.
  • Opening: About noon

Walton and Brewster

  • Closing: 7:30 a.m.
  • Open: About 9 a.m.

Walton and Old Perch 

  • Closing: 7:30 a.m.
  • Opening: About 9:15 a.m.

Note about Old Perch: Once the runners and walkers have passed Walton and Old Perch and the intersection of Old Perch and Avon, traffic will be able to head south on Old Perch, then west on Avon to Crooks or Adams. Eastbound Avon will be opened after all runners and walkers are on the Clinton River Trail, at about 9:15 am.

Avon and Livernois

  • Closing: 7:30 a.m.
  • Opening: About 9:15 a.m.

Avon Road at the Clinton River Trail (east of Livernois Road)

  • Closing: 7:30 a.m.
  • Opening: About 9:15 a.m.

University and Main (downtown Rochester)

  • Closing: 8:30 a.m.
  • Opening: About noon

Note: Second Street between Main and Elizabeth and Letica between Elizabeth and Parkdale will be temporarily blocked while the race is in the downtown area. The following intersections may also be temporarily blocked: Woodward and Main; Ludlow and University; Ludlow and Woodward.

Tienken Road (from Paint Creek Trail to Brewster)

  • Closing: 8:30 a.m.
  • Opening: About noon

Note: Vehicles coming north or south on Livernois will be able to cross Tienken Road at Livernois when it is safe to do so and allowed by the traffic control officer. 

Tienken and Brewster

  • Closing: 8:30 a.m.
  • Opening: About noon

Note: Traffic traveling eastbound on Tienken between Adams and Brewster will be able to head south on Brewster to Walton and then east on Walton. There will be no access to northbound Brewster or any further east on Tienken past Brewster.

Brewster and Dutton

  • Closing: 8:30 a.m.
  • Opening: Noon

Note: If coming west on Dutton, it may be possible to turn onto northbound Brewster depending on the runners and walkers in the intersection. There will be no access to southbound Brewster. 

Dutton and Adams

  • Closing: 8:30 a.m.
  • Opening: Noon

Tienken and Adams

  • Closing: 8:30 a.m.
  • Opening: Noon

Other things to note

Walton and Livernois: This intersection will be open but there will be limited access until noon.

Downtown Rochester: It will be congested. North/south traffic will likely be backed up signifcantly at University and Main. 

Residents of Hawthorne and Brookwood subdivisions: There are special detour routes for you during the race. See the Brooksie Way website for details. 

Village of Rochester Hills: Access the shopping plaza by westbound Walton or northbound Adams to eastbound Walton, then using the median turnaround. 

University Square (Busch's/Trader Joe's) shopping plaza: Access will be by Walton Boulevard from west of Adams. 


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