title: Detour (disambiguation)
text: # Detour (disambiguation)
  
  A detour is a temporary routing to avoid an obstruction.
  
  It may also refer to:
  
  ## Places
  
  ### United States
  
  * Grand Detour Township, Ogle County, Illinois
     * Grand Detour, Illinois, a village in the township
  * Detour, Maryland, an unincorporated village in Carroll County
  * Detour Township, Michigan
     * De Tour Village, Michigan, a village in the township
  
  ### Elsewhere
  
  * Detour River, a tributary of the Turgeon River, in Quebec, Canada
  
  ## Literature
  
  * Detour (Goldsmith novel), a 1939 novel by Martin Goldsmith
  * Detour (Brodsky novel), a 1977 novel by Michael Brodsky
  * The Detour (novel), a 2010 novel by Gerbrand Bakker
  
  ## Film and television
  
  * Detour (1945 film), an American film noir
  * Detour (1967 film), a Bulgarian drama
  * Detour (2009 Canadian film), a Canadian thriller directed by Sylvain Guy
  * Detour (2009 Norwegian film), a Norwegian horror directed by Severin Eskeland
  * Detour (2013 film), a film directed by William Dickerson
  * Detour (2016 film), a thriller directed by Christopher Smith
  * Detour (2021 film), a Nigerian crime drama
  * Détour, a 2017 short film directed by Michel Gondry
  * Detours (film), a 2016 road-trip comedy
  * Teletoon Detour, an adult-oriented cartoon block on the Canadian television channel Teletoon
  * "Detour" (The X-Files), a fifth-season episode of The X-Files
  * "Detour" (Frasier episode), an eleventh-season episode of Frasier
  * "Detour" (NCIS), a tenth-season episode of NCIS
  * Detour (Transformers), a member of the Micromasters
  * The Detour (TV series), an American comedy television series
  
  ## Music
  
  * LA Weekly Detour Music Festival, often referred to as just Detour, a music festival held annually in downtown Los Angeles, California
  * Detour (Christine Allen album), 1980
  * Detour (Cyndi Lauper album), 2016
  * Detours (Saga album), 1997
  * Detours (Sheryl Crow album), 2008
     * "Detours" (song), a 2008 single from Sheryl Crow's album of the same name
  * "Detour" (song), a 1951 song recorded by Patti Page
  * The Detours, a previous name of the Who
     * "Detour", a 2019 song from their album Who
  * "Detour", a 1962 song by Bo Diddley from the album Bo Diddley's a Twister
  
  ## Other
  
  * Frolic and detour, a legal term for an employee acting without order from his employer and temporarily leaving the employer's premises
  * Microsoft Detours, an open source library for intercepting, monitoring and instrumenting binary functions on Microsoft Windows
  