Lake Superior has more than 200 rivers flowing into it and its watershed ranges from 160 miles inland near the Lake Nipigon area of Ontario to only 5 miles inland by the Pictured Rocks National Seashore in Michigan. And one river in that narrow watershed area is Spray Creek and it plunges over the cliffs at Pictured Rocks and lands directly into Lake Superior seventy feet below.

Spray Falls

Few waterfalls actually fall directly into Lake Superior but instead drop in elevation just before reaching its destination. But there are some which do, like Spray Falls in the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, which drops 70 feet directly into Lake Superior. You can’t hike around behind the falls since the cliff hasn’t been cut back into the rock and the lake it too chilly for swimming but the best views of the falls are from the lake.

Spray Falls