Woodward Avenue, Detroit and Pontiac, Michigan—August 15, 2026
Detroit’s Woodward Avenue has an infamous history in the automotive world as the scene of countless stoplight drag races. The Woodward Dream Cruise, however, has a much more wholesome backstory. From its humble beginnings in 1995 as a fundraiser for a local soccer field, metro Detroit’s annual Woodward Dream Cruise has morphed into the world’s largest single-day automotive event. For its 31st year, roughly one million attendees spent an overcast but otherwise mild August day watching an estimated 35,000 cars, trucks, vans, and motorcycles ply the 16 miles of asphalt between Ferndale and Pontiac, Michigan.