Grand Traverse & Leelanau County Service

Do you carry a mobile device?  Find your bus using the Transit App or Google Maps Transit.  You may also visit www.batabustracker.com to follow the GPS tracker on your bus as it moves along the route to your stop. To add convenience, you may pay for your ride using your phone with the Journey App.  Please download   today! 

 

 

Printable maps and schedules:

• Route 10: Traverse City to Suttons Bay

• Route 12: Traverse City to Interlochen (now with extended service in the AM/PM and lunch hour)

• Route 13: Traverse City to Kingsley

• Route 14: Traverse City to Acme (free fare during construction of E. Front St - detour in effect - see below!)

• Route 16: Old Mission Peninsula (seasonal, September - June) 

• Route 31:  Hammond Road and Supply Road (seasonal, September - June)

• WEST:  Downtown TC to West Senior High School and The Children's House Montessori School (coming May 28th, extended WEST service between 8am-3pm to Munson, Olesons West, Brookside Commons, Meijer, and more!)

 

Village Loops have the flexibility for deviations and flag stops along the BATA bus route.  This means that riders can call BATA at (231) 941-2324 to schedule a pickup or drop off up to ¾ of a mile off the normal route path. Plus, riders can simply wave the bus down along the route and board the bus or ask the driver to stop anywhere along the loop transportation route to depart the bus. 

 

Route Maps & Schedules Effective: 03/11/2024

 

Grand Traverse & Leelanau County BATA Bus Routes & Schedules

 

Route 10 - Suttons Bay    

 service that fits eleven bikes will continue on May 18, 2024...but there is still rack space for three bikes on Route 10 buses all winter and spring!! 

 

Riders to Empire, Leland, Lake Leelanau, Omena, and Northport should request a ride using BATA Link.  

 

 

NEW, beginning May 28, 2024 for limited summer service only:  Traverse City's Hall Street Transfer Station to Glen Arbor.  This bus will fit three(3) bikes and connects Traverse City with the Glen Arbor bus shelter on Oak Street.  

 

 

Route 12 - Traverse City to Interlochen

*  Route 12 will now arrive in Traverse City from Interlochen before 7:30am, and will have a final departure from Hall Street at 6:30pm M-F.  There will also be consistent hourly service and two buses circulating the route all day long with no mid-day lunch gap.  Click here for the full schedule.

* Beginning May 28, there will be a Saturday 7:30am outbound bus and a 8:25am inbound bus.

 

 

 

 

Route 13 - Traverse City to Kingsley

Riders to Fife Lake should request a ride using BATA Link.  

Service Alert:  The Kingsley Branch Library now has a dedicated inbound and outbound stop.  Check out a free 31 Day BATA Commuter Pass from TADL!

* Indian Trails travels directly between BATA's Hall Street Station in Traverse City to Kingsley seven days a week, departing TC at 10:40am and arriving Kingsley Laundromat at 11:10am.  Visit Indian Trails' updated schedule here.    

* Indian Trails travels directly between BATA's Hall Street Station in Traverse City to Kingsley seven days a week, arriving in TC at 7:05pm after departing Kingsley Laundromat at 6:35pm.  Visit Indian Trails' updated schedule here.   

 

 

 

Route 14 - Traverse City to Cherry Capital Airport and Acme

* Beginning Monday, March 11th, Route 14 will be fare-free for all riders until the construction on E. Front Street is completed in June.  The MDOT carpool lot and bus shelter at Acme's Meijer is now in service.  There will be a slight detour in the route pattern where construction is being done between downtown and Garfield.  There will be temporary stops at the Hagerty Center, Barlow & State, and the Civic Center/Titus.

 

Service Alert:  E. Front St traffic is currently detoured to accomodate MDOT construction.  See www.bata.net/2024 for updates and details.

 

*NEW!  MDOT construction project of East Front Street will no longer detour Route 14 onto Peninsula Drive.  The bus will now travel eastbound on E. Front Street with its original path.  The eastbound stop at Hagerty Center will stay as the Barlow eastbound stop until further notice.  The stop at Garfield Rd eastbound is now open for Bayline riders and Route 14 riders may flag it down here.  The westbound detour will remain the same (Dennos, Civic Center/Titus, State/Gilbert, State/Barlow) until further notice.

 

*The temporary Peninsula Drive stop near Garfield traveling eastbound is now closed permanently.  The Bayline stop on east of Garfield in front of Starbucks is now in service and Route 14 riders may flag a bus here.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please visit the Student Seasonal page for Route 16, Route 31, or BATA WEST to WSH/TCH

 

 

Coming May 28th, BATA WEST FLEX will have hourly service, 8am-3pm Monday-Friday between Hall Street, West Front Street, Munson Hospital, Oleson's West, Brookside Commons, YMCA, and Meijer - with deviation possibilities along Medical Campus Drive, W. Royal Drive, Long Lake Rd, and Silver Lake Rd.

 

 

If you have questions or to schedule deviations, please call BATA at: 231.941.2324.  Google Maps, Apple Maps, the Transit App, and www.batabustracker.com will all provide live bus schedule information for BATA's Village Loops.