Grand Traverse & Leelanau County Service

Do you carry a mobile device?  Find your bus using the Transit App (or click here to use the Transit App Trip Planner website on your phone or computer) or you may find bus directions using 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. 

 

 

Click on the routes below to view or download printable PDF maps and schedules:

• Route 10: Traverse City to Suttons Bay 

• Route 11: Traverse City to Glen Arbor 

• Route 12: Traverse City to GT Mall, Chum's Corner, Blair, & Interlochen

  • US 31 MDOT STAGE 2 construction and detours have begun. Check the map on www.batabustracker.com for LIVE bus arrival times.

• Route 13: Traverse City to LaFranier Park-n-Ride & Kingsley 

• Route 14: Traverse City to TVC Airport, beach hotels, & Acme (NEW!  Saturday Service begins June 20th!)

• WEST:  Downtown TC to Olesons West, Brookside Commons, Meijer, schools, and deviations to residences and medical centers on the west side & WEST AM & PM Student Express 

 

For BATA's modified public bus routes that serve area schools on Routes 16 and 31, please see www.bata.net/schools.

 

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: 10/20/2025

 

Leelanau County Routes 10 & 11: (Grand Traverse Routes are further down this page)

 

 

Route 10: Traverse City to Suttons Bay.  Buses every two hours Monday - Saturday.

 : May - October (but Route 10 buses still carry 3 bikes the rest of the year) 

 

 

 

 

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

 

Route 11 - Traverse City to Glen Arbor.  NOW on SUMMER schedule!

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.

 

Please note, Route 11 will NOT be in service during inclement weather no-school days for Glen Lake Schools between September and June.  Route 11 will not be in service on days when Glen Lake Schools are not in session and will not have a 2pm outbound/3pm inbound afternoon run on early release days for Glen Lake Schools. Please note those dates listed below or see https://www.glenlakeschools.org/ for details.  It is the rider's responsibility, to understand these constraints on Route 11.

 

 

Note:  The last bus each day when Glen Lake Schools are in session depends on the Glen Lake School calendar.  See below.

 

• Route 11 to and from Glen Arbor and Glen Lake Schools will be on the summer schedule beginning Monday, June 15.  Route 11 will be on SUMMER SCHEDULE until September.
  • Half day departure at 11:40 a.m. (no 2pm outbound/3pm inbound) with a 11:55/Noon arrival at the M-72 MDOT Park-n-Ride Lot:

 

Grand Traverse County Routes 12 - 14 & WEST

 

Route 12 - Traverse City to GT Mall, Chum's Corner, Blair, & Interlochen.  Buses every hour Monday - Friday and every two hours on Saturday.

 

* US 31 Road construction and detours between Blair Township Hall and Interlochen has begun.  Be prepared for delays and occasional route pattern changes between Interlochen Corners and Interlochen Academy of the Arts.  For more accurate updated schedules, check the map on www.batabustracker.com for LIVE bus arrival times.  

 

* During this contruction period, Route 12 will only serve GT Mall inbound by deviation request and will only serve TCAPS West Middle School by request.

 

 

The first inbound bus from Interlochen is 6:30am!  

 

 

Route 13 - Traverse City to Kingsley, Monday - Friday.  Buses almost every hour between LaFranier park-n-Ride and Kingsley except for AM and PM peak travel periods when Route 13 travels all the way to downtown Traverse City/Hall St.

(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.    So, Kingsley riders can get to Hall Street on weekend mornings.

* 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.   So, Kingsley riders can get to Hall Street on weekend mornings.

 

Route 14 - Traverse City to Cherry Capital Airport, beach hotels, and Acme.  Buses every two hours, except for an hourly mid-day service in town.  Route 14 will operate on Saturdays too, every other hour (9:30am to 5:30 PM) beginning June 20.  

 

 

Starting June 20th: Saturday outbounds from Hall Street at 9:30am, 11:30, 1:30pm, and 3:30pm

Starting June 20th, Saturday inbounds from Acme Meijer at 10:30am, 12:30pm, 2:30pm, 4:30pm, and 6:30pm.

 

 

8:05am-2:30pm Monday-Friday between Brookside Commons, Oleson's West, Hall Street Transfer Station, and back to and from Meijer - with deviation possibilities near its route path to medical clinics, residential areas, and the YMCA - see map below for possibilites.

 

There are also school-day-only seasonal early-morning and afternoon trips to/from Traverse City West Senior High School and The Children's House.  On school days, WEST leaves Hall Street at 7:25 (7;45 in the summer), arriving to WSH by 7:55 and TCH by 8:00.  It departs WSH each school day at 3:10pm, then departs Hall Street at 3:25pm for Compass Middle students to travel to TCH by 3:45, and back at Hall Street by 4:00pm.  This schedule is modified for WSH students on any day where students are dismissed early.  See www.bata.net/west for more info.

 

 

BATA West operates hourly between 8:05am (inbound to Hall Street from Brookside Commons) and 2:30pm (2:00 inbound to Hall Street from Meijer).  The LAST BUS from Hall Street outbound is 1:30pm and the LAST BUS from Meijer inbound is 2pm.

 

 

 

For BATA's modified public bus routes that serve area schools, please see www.bata.net/schools.

 

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.