Waterfalls
Soon the rivers of the north will be rowdy with April showers and the melt of February blizzards. Spring is prime waterfall-watching season. And who doesn’t love waterfalls? The water pounding white into a canyon gorge, the steady roar, the feathery kiss of mist on your face, the jostle of the crowd…
Okay, so no one daydreams about watching a waterfall with 47 other people. While researching our book, “Waterfalls of Minnesota’s North Shore: A Guide for Sightseers, Hikers & Romantics” (North Shore Press, 2006), we visited over a hundred waterfalls in the Northern Wilds and found some oft-overlooked gems. Here are 10 of them.
The 70-foot High Falls of the Baptism River has the distinction of being the tallest waterfall in Minnesota. (High Falls of the Pigeon River is higher, but half of it is in Ontario.) The Baptism’s High Falls Trail rises sharply at first and soon intersects the Superior Hiking Trail.
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It was one of those Minnesota winter mornings when the sky is bluer than any summer sky can be. Though we had hiked along the Caribou River many times, this waterfall trek held a new excitement. It was the first time we had hiked on the river itself. Already heady from seeing four bald eagles along Highway 61, we slid our feet into snowshoes, anxious to venture out onto this winding frozen path.
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Barrier Falls of the Devil Track River
Barrier Falls, in winter, is an awesome 25-foot tall confection of ice and snow, stalactites and mites.
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Barrier Falls, in winter, is an awesome 25-foot tall confection of ice and snow, stalactites and mites.
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Glen Avon Falls is a gem–an Elizabeth Taylor-sized gem—little-known to the casual North Shore traveler, but apparently very well-known to anglers and yellow swallowtail butterflies. Park and walk about 40 yards across exposed red rock outcrop to the river’s edge.
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