Little Trap Falls

narrow and tall waterfall along a tiny Trap Hills creek

While Anderson Creek is a relatively humble creek, slowly winding over to join Iron River near White Pine, it does hold an interesting set of headwaters. Flowing north off of a chunk of the famous Trap Hills the small creek forms a deep, narrow cut after falling down Little Trap Falls. Barely a trickle for most of the year, so far upstream, the steep rocky gorge and tall drop still makes for an impressive waterfall.

Directions

Drive north on M-64 from Bergland for 9.7 miles before taking a sharp right on old M-64. Stay on this dirt road for about 2.2 miles, just when it straightens back out from the slow eastern bend, and park on the shoulder. Cut due east into the woods, climbing up and down a small tributary, before bumping into Anderson Creek. Follow the creek upstream a short distance, deep within a rocky gorge, to locate Little Trap Falls.

Photographs

Visits

Seen in April.

April 6, 2009 thundering, with a few shells of ice
Manganese Gorge has the same sudden rock walls, the same little creek bubbling over tiny drops, and only slightly smaller trees towering high above on the walls. When I reached the end waterfall the similarities stopped. Where Manganese Falls is huddled within a crack, barely visible from above or below the gorge, Little Trap was fully exposed for all to see. The towering drop thundered down with only a few shells of ice trying to hide the water from view. I stood below the impressive falls and let the cool mist collect on my face.