Big Falls near Skanee by Michigan Nut Photography

With 225 Michigan waterfall posts – well, 226 now – it’s not often that I come across a waterfall that I’ve never shared on Michigan in Pictures. Our friends at Go Waterfalling share that Big Falls:

…is a remote waterfall located between Skanee and Big Bay. The falls are in Baraga County. There are no paved roads penetrating this area, and reaching this falls requires you to ford a river. Big Falls is not very high, but it is large and impressive.

The falls is located off of a rough dirt road that heads east from Black Creek Road. The “road” (it seems to be primarily used as an ATV trail) is about 1.9 miles south of Skanee Road. This road fords both forks of the Huron River. The “road” that leads to Big Falls is roughly half way in between the two forks, and is the best defined of the “roads” that heads south. There is no way a car is going to make it to this falls. I used a bike.

The trail passes high above the falls. The falls is visible from the trail, but the view is blocked by trees. Reaching the base of the falls requires a steep climb down into the gorge.

John shared this way back in 2017, and it sounds like he concurs with the degree of difficulty getting there. He wrote “It was quite an adventure getting to this waterfall in Baraga County, MI.. Two attempts and a river fording.. We thought we had seen most of the Upper Michigan waterfalls over the years but boy were we wrong.”

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