The freighter M/V Mark W. Barker ran aground near Belle Isle on Wednesday morning in Detroit. According to the U.S. Coast Guard, planning is underway to refloat the ship and determine the cause. No injuries, pollution, or damage was reported. (Andy Morrison/Detroit News via AP)

DETROIT (AP) — A huge freighter hauling salt through the Great Lakes ran aground in the Detroit River on Wednesday, just a short distance from a popular island park in Detroit.

Freighters regularly travel the waterway but they rarely come so close to land, so the sudden arrival of the Mark W. Barker, which is nearly 650 feet long, caused a spectacle off Belle Isle, a state park.

“I came down here and I looked and I was like, ‘whoa,'” Diane Reid told The Detroit News.

The U.S. Coast Guard said the freighter got stuck about 8 a.m.

“No injuries, pollution, or damage reported. Cargo of salt. River remains open to all traffic,” the Coast Guard said on Twitter. “Planning underway to refloat & determine cause.”

A camera at Belle Isle’s Dossin Great Lakes Museum was providing a livestream of the stuck ship.