Wild Mountains of Marquette

Marquette County holds some of Upper Peninsula's wildest lands and most scenic waterfalls. Parallel to the Lake Superior shoreline, sweeping north from Marquette, are the Huron Mountains, giving rivers and creeks flowing from the Yellow Dog Plains and Pesheekee Highlands a barrier that they must wind through and drop over. In the south end of the county, the heart of the area's iron industry, large rivers flowing south to Lake Michigan must travel over jagged, fragmented bedrock between small, stinking swamps.

North towards Marquette from Sugarloaf
Looking at the main curtain, speckled with fall leaves

Alder Falls

on Alder Creek
Rocky crops around the falls

Big Garlic Falls

on Big Garlic River
Small drop over the wet concrete

Big Iron Dam Falls

on Yellow Dog River
Small upper drop

Big Pup Falls

on Big Pup Creek
Looking up at the falls from the island

Black River Falls

on Black River
Middle drop on Bulldog Falls

Bulldog Falls

on Yellow Dog River
Looking sideways at the drop

Bushy Creek Falls

on Bushy Creek
The manmade falls of Carp River

Carp River Dam Falls

on Carp River
A swollen, roaring cascade

Carp River Falls

on Carp River
Lower splaying drop

Cataract Dam Falls

on Middle Branch Escanaba River
Large fanning drop between the snowy banks

Cedar Falls

on Cedar Creek
Abrupt upper drop, nestled deep in the crack

Company Meadow Falls

on Company Creek

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