North Country National Scenic Trail Tahquamenon Falls State Park Verns Rd To 506 Track your location on this wer R d map with your mobile device! Step 1: Download and install the free d R r Avenza PDF Maps mobile app: te 506 a d W R e http://avenza.com/pdf-maps id W e N g id r Step 2: From within the PDF Maps app, B t n download this map from the NCTA r d u R B r d website: e Luce w R o N T W t Chippewa https://northcountrytrail.org/ y F n a i ts rm e Truc o docs/maps/NCT-MI-Tahqua.pdf B k R P d d h r Rd R te s a i Tahquamenon W e f s e e i t d i i d h W a r a W P Sheephead N d l O Lake ld O P a ra d i se Rd N Wide Water Rd Water Wide N N P d r R e a r c e v Paradise h a er s R e Falls LOWER d B 500 N Betsy FALLS: N G o d Lake d Toilet a rd N R Gift Shop d L a Clark u Picnic Area r Lake ie L Concessions ak es R Boat Route to Island d 650 S Backcountry w W S am Campsite Two Modern Campgrounds ta p tion So Lakes Rd Hadicapped Accesible Boardwalk uth Rd 750 Clark W Lucy Ln Lake Loop 700 Water Tank Lakes Lower 750 State W Lost Lake Rd 750 Lodge Falls Rd 750 700 e k a 750 L er ch Wilderness Pr e a d Loop 650 kas R N Far 800 4.6 mi 750 750 650 Rd st d o r L R be N s im l Nature l T Ho a l Study Area br F o 1.2 mi o k Giant Pines 800 R d r Loop 800 e v i Camp 10 N Club Rd R n Lakes 500 o 1.5 mi n e 700 750 m 6.0 mi a u 750 q About h Ta 750 800 Backcountry RIVERMOUTH: Lake Superior Campsite Picnic Area Upper 650 Park Falls Swimming Boat Access Site UPPER 2.7 mi Rustic Campground 750 FALLS: Modern Campground 5.7 mi Toilet W Milosch Ln 700 Tahqua Fact Shack W R d S T o a u h Whitefish Gift Shop 700 th q u R a i Bay Picnic Area v T Tahquamenon Falls State Park encompasses close e r r l Nature Trail Rd to 50,000 acres with the Tahquamenon River Halifaxand Trl Tahquamenon Falls Brewery waterfalls as main attractions. The Upper Falls is one Hadicapped Accesible Pathway l r T T E a of the largest waterfalls east of the Mississippi River n N h n o q s n S in u g e a R a w m with a width of 200 feet and a drop of nearly 50 feet. m o d h a o w 750 e lv n u r B 750 s o q 700 650 Water flow over these falls has been recorded at e d n h s L R a y e T e n d R l l ra iv r d r G 650 R er u T ne W ine 50,000 gallons of water per second. The Lower Falls C N Hulbert Rd a P ulh ne n C Lo W W a l n are found 4 miles downstream, consisting of five i Ca W Hat Ln m u p 7 R Q d d smaller falls that cascade around an island. Although R r e 650 N n S the drop is only 22 feet, the panorama is well worth n p r o in C g T the easy walk. Running through the park is the North N r l W Cur leys Blv Country Trail, which can be hiked between the Upper Rd Northwest N d and Lower falls.Unique characteristics of the falls d include amber-colored water and large amounts of R s r e foam. The amber water is a result of tannins leached d a e from Cedar, Spruce and Hemlock trees in nearby Legend R N swamps.This extremely soft water is then churned by 0 1 2 North Country Trail Forested Area PARKING MODERN CAMPGROUND W G Miles raha the action of the falls, which produces foam. ms Rd 1:36,000 North Country Trail (on-road) Wetlands PICNIC AREA RUSTIC CAMPGROUND 10 ft Contour Interval Projection: UTM Zone 16T NAD83 W Cartographer Whitney Lambert, NCTA Intern Other Trails Park Boundary SWIMMING SANITATION STATION W hi teh Data Sources: USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States ou se v. 1.3, USGS National Hydrography Dataset, USGS National Elevation County Boundary BOAT ACCESS SITE HEADQUARTERS La Dataset, USGS National Transportation Dataset, National Land Cover Source: MI DNR, Pure MI, NCTA nd in g R Database 2011 (NLCD 2011), Michigan Geographic Framework d Version 15, National Wetlands Inventory North Country Trail Association - 2016 northcountrytrail.org.