The cold night made my pond rather stiff with a new layer of ice but this river flows a little too fast for ice to form overnight. The Upper Tahquamenon Falls, in the eastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan, is more than 200 feet across and a drop of about 48 feet. During the late spring runoff, the river drains as much as 50,000 gallons of water per second, and while the flow was only 2,740 gallons per second in early fall when I visited the river, it was still an impressive amount of water flowing over both the upper and lower falls. The brown water comes from the tannins leached from the cedar swamps in the river drain basin.
Upper Tahquamenon Falls
