If you continued downstream from yesterday’s picture, you would find the Big Manitou Falls, the highest waterfall in Wisconsin. And without any references to scale, it might not seem very tall. There is a person wearing a white shirt standing near the level of the top of the waterfall on the left side about a third of the way into the photo. The person looks like a little white dot.
Big Manitou Falls in Summer
A warm summer Saturday may have some people venturing to water to cool off. And while this water looks inviting to wade in, you don’t want to wade too far downstream as the water drops 165 feet as Wisconsin’s tallest waterfall.
Top of Big Manitou Falls
If I didn’t have to mow lawn on this nice November day, it would have been a great day to visit more waterfalls before they ice up. Located on the Black River in Upper Michigan, Gorge Falls, drops about 25 feet as it nears Lake Superior.
Gorge Falls
As winter approaches, many fisherman are enjoying these last warm autumn days for fishing outings before the water starts to ice up.
Autumn Fishing Trips
The forecast calls for freezing rain tonight which is never good during January in Wisconsin as I was slipping and sliding on my path today and it felt almost as steep as this waterfall. The Native Americans, who originally settled in the area around this falls, believed they heard the voice of the Great Spirit within the roaring of the falls and gave it the name “Gitchee Manitou” which means Great Spirit, but it is now known as Big Manitou Falls.
Big Manitou Falls
On a hot summer Saturday, I am sure the beach will be filled with people cooling off at Interfalls Lake in Pattison State Park. The twenty-three acre lake, containing several small islands, is downstream from the Little Manitou Falls. And the sound of the small dam and the roar of the Big Manitou Falls can be heard directly behind this spot. In a span of a short distance, the waters of the Black River makes a 30 foot drop before flowing into a calm lake briefly before it goes over the dam and then the big plunge of 165 feet until it makes its way to Lake Superior.
Interfalls Lake
