Best way to move a site between farms running different versions of SharePoint.

I will try and keep this short and summarize what we are trying to do to see if I am on the right track. I am at a new job and trying to clean up stuff that has collected over the years. I might be making this more difficult than necessary and looking for
the easiest way to accomplish the goal which is:
There is a team here that had a SharePoint 2007 WSS environment built for them years ago that they have been using and have a lot of historical data that they want to keep. It contains several (8) Sites in a single Site Collection. The sites are all very
basic using out of the box web parts(Lists and Libraries). Nothing custom and security very basic (can be recreated if needed) which is all good. We want to consolidate this farm as it is the only thing on the farm and move it to our Intranet (running SharePoint
2010 Enterprise). On the intranet we have a Managed Path configured for "Teams" which this site collection would fall nicely into based on usage policy and existing Governance. I am fine with them having their own Site Collection Database separate
from what the other site collections that already exist. All of this really doesn't sound like it will be too hard. However I don't want to run out and buy any migration tools as it is just this one site that is moving and I should be able to do this with
out of the box tools/powershell.
Gotchas - 2007 WSS was on SP0. I just got done upgrading the 2007 environment to SP3. I think I needed to be at least up to SP2 but since I was upgrading them anyhow I went up to SP3. Intranet is running on SharePoint Server 2010 Ent SP1. This shouldn't
be an issue as I am just jumping from 07->10 so as long as my 07 content DB is at a high enough patch level I should be able to move everything right over but will be working a project to upgrade to current SP on the Intranet after I am done with this initial
consolidation and retirement of the 2007 WSS farm. 
My thoughts on how to do this.
The Team wants this to happen so they are willing to stop work on site for a day so I can do this is normal business hours which is really nice of them. I also have a test environment which is pretty close to prod to practice the process on. So my plan
is to  grab a SQL backup and restore the Content DB to the SQL box for the 2010 Farm. Once the site collection's Content DB is on the right SQL box, use PowerShell to attach the Content DB to a new temp staging Web Application that I created for this
process. Then backup and restore the site collection to the existing "Teams" Managed Path on the normal production Web Application. I assume to do this it would be best to use a "staging" Content DB for the initial SQL restore. Then set
up a new "Production" Content Database for them to live on or point it to the existing Teams Content Database. I guess somewhere in here (after import) I should upgrade the site collection to 2010 look and feel. Let them know I am done and they can
go back to work while I clean up all the staging stuff.
Am I missing anything obvious here? I might have to do the Staging Web Application creation and cleanup after hours as I think I will need to do an IIS Reset. 
Once all this is done then I start the project to upgrade the Intranet to 2013. 
Thanks

Much detail :) but as a shortcut you can use third party migration tools to have a seamless transition from old version to new. Few to mention, Methalogix and Quest tools. You may also leverage the trial version they offer which most probably cover your
current situation. 
The good thing about third party migration tools are you don't have to worry about template mapping nor security mapping. Of course for migration from very old version, like SP2003 to SP2010 requires the security mapping as it's totally different in structure.
But from SP2007 on-wards the security hierarchy is basically same. One good thing to bear in mind is if you've custom solution there maybe some issue otherwise it's a smooth ride.
Hope this helps :) 
Yeah, I know there are shortcuts with third party migration tools but I really think they would be overkill in this case. While I thought of trials, I don't want to waste time going through a trial version only to find the finalize button is grayed out unless
you pay for it and have to start over with something else. Though it isn't like I have that much data. Entire Site collection is 314MB when I look at storage used in Quotas and Locks. So if the trial was limited to 5GB or something then it would work. 
I am doing this mini project now to avoid having to jump from 2007 to 2013 as we are getting pressure to get our intranet moved up to 2013. To do this move later would mean I would need to set up a 2010 environment to jump to  before moving them to
2013 so might as well cram it in now before hand to save a bunch of work later on. As I mentioned, no custom solutions, no custom web parts, nothing but out of the box stuff. Not even the fab 40. So this should be as easy as can be. 
Worst case that I can think of is that I might loose security. That isn't even that bad being it is a single site collection that I am dealing with. It is wide open to the entire team so just drop their entire AD Security group in Contributor and they would
be back up and running. Go back and grant 1-2 people advanced permissions and they should be set. 
Besides the way I look at it, going the PowerShell route is a good refresher for me as it may be similar when I do the move to 2013. We have the upgrade of not only the Intranet but our external web site as well. 

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