Munising Falls
Michigan · height not recorded · Last verified 2026-05-15
Today at Munising Falls: areas of fog, 47°F.
Right now
Overnight
47°F
Areas Of Fog
Friday
75°F
Areas Of Fog then Mostly Sunny
Today's daylight
Sunrise 6:03 AM · Sunset 9:39 PM · 15h 35m
Snapshot built 7m ago. Sources: NWS MQT.
Munising 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.
Munising Falls sits in Alger County, Michigan. The base sits at roughly 751 feet of elevation. Drive time is about 1 minutes from Munising. A trail — Munising Falls Trail — runs within 50 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.
Munising Falls is a waterfall located in Munising in the westernmost portion of the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Alger County, Michigan. The falls drops about 50 feet (15 m) over a sandstone cliff. With the exception of the spring thaw, the amount of water falling is relatively small. There are trails leading to multiple viewpoints around the falls.
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 · 5.9 mi away
MINERS RIVER NR MUNISING, MI
View live discharge data →
When to go (from the climate data, not our opinion)
Monthly averages from Open-Meteo's reanalysis dataset (2020–2024). Highlighted months are when we think the waterfall is at its best — but the numbers are the numbers regardless.
| Month | High °F | Low °F | Precip (in) | Snow days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 27 | 18 | 2.4 | 21.2 |
| Feb | 28 | 16 | 2.2 | 19.4 |
| Mar | 36 | 24 | 2.8 | 15.2 |
| Apr | 45 | 32 | 3.7 | 11.4 |
| May | 59 | 42 | 2.7 | 1.4 |
| Jun | 69 | 52 | 4 | 0 |
| Jul | 72 | 58 | 3.1 | 0 |
| Aug | 73 | 60 | 3.7 | 0 |
| Sep | 68 | 55 | 3 | 0 |
| Oct | 55 | 44 | 4.1 | 3.6 |
| Nov | 43 | 33 | 4.2 | 13.2 |
| Dec | 33 | 24 | 3 | 19.4 |
Source: Open-Meteo Historical Weather API · ERA5 reanalysis 2020–2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Munising Falls (this page) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Memorial Falls | 0 mi | — | — | — | — |
| Olson Falls | 1 mi | — | — | — | — |
| Horseshoe Falls | 2 mi | — | — | — | — |
| Alger Falls | 2 mi | — | — | — | — |
| Wagner Falls | 3 mi | — | — | — | — |
Questions visitors ask about Munising 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 Munising Falls from a major city?
Munising Falls is 1 miles from Munising (about 1 minutes' drive).
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Where it is
46.4227, -86.6212
Sources and live status
Where we got the data, and where to check current conditions before you drive.
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munising_Falls
Wikidata (Q38015)
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38015
GeoNames (5003066)
https://www.geonames.org/5003066/
Last verified by Fallspots: 2026-05-15
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