Listening to the forecast this evening and hearing about the temperatures falling again made me feel cold even before it drops to zero. The drops I like to see are decreasing gas prices so I can visit more northern Wisconsin waterfalls to watch the rivers drop in elevation as they make their way down to the lake. Superior Falls, last 65 foot drop of the Montreal River, is just a few hundred yards from Lake Superior on the Wisconsin and Michigan border.
Dropping Water
A river flows onward to another river, lake, sea or ocean, unless it dries up before reaching its destination and they can be many miles or just a few. The Montreal River is a river flowing to Lake Superior in northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Much of the river’s course defines a portion of the Wisconsin–Michigan border. The Ojibwe name for the river is Gaa-waasijiwaang, meaning “where there is whitewater”. And there is some ‘whitewater’ on this river as it drops more than a thousand feet in less than 50 miles as it travels downstream over four named waterfalls (Peterson Falls, Interstate Falls, Saxon Falls and Superior Falls) before empties calmly into Oronto Bay on Lake Superior.
The Montreal River looks rather peaceful at its mouth even though it just went over a 90 foot drop a short walk in the opposite direction.
Montreal River Reaching Lake Superior
