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 (New summer Bike-n-Ride!) with buses every two hours seven days a week.

• Route 11: Traverse City to Glen Arbor with several buses a day between Traverse City and Glen Arbor.

• Route 12: Traverse City to Interlochen with buses every hour Monday to Friday and every two hours on Saturday

• Route 13: Traverse City to Kingsley with service to Kingsley almost every hour Monday to Friday in conbination with Route 2.

• Route 14: Traverse City to Acme with buses every two hours Monday to Friday

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

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

• WEST:  Downtown TC to Munson Hospital, Olesons West, Brookside Commons, Meijer, schools, and deviations to residences and medical centers on the west side with buses every hour from 8:30am to 2:30pm Monday to Friday.

 

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: 05/24/2025

 

Grand Traverse & Leelanau County BATA Bus Routes & Schedules

 

Route 10 - Suttons Bay  -  Now SEVEN days a week!!

 : Saturday, May 24 -  Saturday, October 18th 2025.  Most trips carry eleven bikes, but check schedule below for those buses that fit three bikes (those that are also equipped with a mobility lift).  

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Route 11 - Traverse City to Glen Arbor

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.

 

Note:  Route 11 will NOT be in service during inclement weather no-school days for Glen Lake Schools between October and and June.

 

 

 

 

 

Route 12 - Traverse City to Interlochen

 

Major MDOT construction is scheduled on this route after September 2nd, 2025.  Check back to this page for detour and route change details in August.

 

 

 

 

Route 13 - Traverse City to Kingsley

 

(Connect to Kingsley almost every hour using Route 2!)

* Indian Trails travels directly between BATA's Hall Street Station in Traverse City to Kingsley seven days a week, departing TC at 10:25am and arriving Kingsley Laundromat at 10:55am.  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 6:50pm after departing Kingsley Laundromat at 6:20pm.  Visit Indian Trails' updated schedule here.   

 

 

 

Route 14 - Traverse City to Cherry Capital Airport and Acme

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8am-2:30pm Monday-Friday between Hall Street, West Front Street, Munson Hospital, Oleson's West, Brookside Commons, YMCA, and Meijer - with deviation possibilities between 8am and 2pm along Medical Campus Drive, W. Royal Drive, Long Lake Rd, Silver Lake Rd, and Herkner Rd.

 

There are school-day-only seasonal early-morning and afternoon trips to/from Traverse City West Senior High School and The Children's House.  (BATA West does not run the 7:35am outbound trips or any servcie past 2:30pm on days where there is no school scheduled or for school inclement weather days.)

 

 

*****Summer schedule is in effect.  Parents please contact The Children's House for questions regarding summer school transportation. West Senior High Students may request a deviation for summer classes.

BATA West operates for the public between 8:05am (inbound to Hall Street from from Brookside Commons) and 2:00pm (inbound to Hall Street from Meijer).

 

*Morning and afternoon runs to West Senior High School and The Children's House are seasonal and WEST will not be in service for those hours on dates where school is not in session for students.  This includes snow days, summer/winter/spring breaks, holidays, teacher planning days, etc.  There are no deviations permitted and fixed stops are limited on those morning and afternoon school runs.

 

*Morning and afternoon runs to West Senior High School and The Children's House are seasonal and WEST will not be in service for those hours on dates where school is not in session for students.  This includes snow days, holidays, teacher planning days, etc.  There are no deviations permitted and fixed stops are limited on those morning and afternoon school runs.

 

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.