Miners Falls
Michigan · height not recorded · Last verified 2026-05-15
Today at Miners Falls: areas of fog, 46°F.
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Sunrise 6:03 AM · Sunset 9:39 PM · 15h 36m
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Miners Falls is a waterfall in Alger County, Michigan. Height has not been officially recorded. Access details and conditions have not yet been verified in person by Fallspots — the data on this page comes from OpenStreetMap and USGS GNIS.
Miners Falls sits in Alger County, Michigan. It drops along Miners River. The base sits at roughly 748 feet of elevation. Drive time is about 7 minutes from Munising. A trail — Miners Falls Trail — runs within 10 meters of the marked location. No public parking is recorded within 2 km, so a longer approach is likely. This is one of the more frequently visited falls in the state by our popularity model. Source records come from OpenStreetMap and USGS GNIS.
Miners Falls is a waterfall located on Miners River in the western portion of the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Alger County, Michigan. The falls drops about 40 feet (12 m) over a sandstone outcrop with a 10-foot (3.0 m) crest. The falls can be accessed by a 0.6 mile gravel path, with stairs leading to a lookout.
Is the water flowing right now?
Most waterfall sites don't tell you this. The waterfall itself is almost never gauged, but a USGS streamgage in the same watershed can tell you whether snowmelt has started, peaked, or run dry.
USGS gage 04044755 · 1 mi away
MINERS RIVER NR MUNISING, MI
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Compare to nearby falls
If this one isn't the right fit, here's how it stacks up against the closest documented falls. Every column is filterable on the site — not buried in 13,000 reviews.
| Waterfall | Distance | Height | Trail | Dogs | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miners Falls (this page) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Elliot Falls | 2 mi | — | — | — | — |
| Bridalveil Falls | 2 mi | — | — | — | — |
| Sweet Mother Moses | 3 mi | — | — | — | — |
| Ice | 3 mi | — | — | — | — |
| Mosquito Falls | 4 mi | — | — | — | — |
Questions visitors ask about Miners Falls
Answers built from our structured data. If a question isn't here, the fact is unverified — we'd rather omit than guess.
How far is Miners Falls from a major city?
Miners Falls is 5 miles from Munising (about 7 minutes' drive).
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Where it is
46.4747, -86.5314
Sources and live status
Where we got the data, and where to check current conditions before you drive.
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miners_Falls
Wikidata (Q37931)
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37931
GeoNames (5002157)
https://www.geonames.org/5002157/
Last verified by Fallspots: 2026-05-15
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