Tahquamenon Upper falls access

[JOHN SCHENCK]

Has anyone on here kayaked or boated to these falls. I’m looking for a place to launch paddle up to the falls and then float back down or any put in take out info. Thanks in advance. 

[Paul Trybul]

Does this help? It looks like a decent portage any way you look at it.

[Scott Ferguson]

There is a second set of falls, the lower falls,  You can put a kayak in there, but I doubt you could kayak up and over the falls to the upper falls.

The first picture is looking upstream toward the lower falls, the second is a closeup of the lower falls.  I don’t think there is any road access to the river between the upper and lower falls.

 

 

[Kev-mo]

thanks for the memory jog Scott. we took a family trip there when i was a teeneager and we swam below the falls and i think we even body surfed over them

[Dick G]

Once you get above the lower falls,  you would have to carry kayak down several stairs to get to the water.  First picture is looking upstream from lower falls , [see Scott's picture]. Second pictures is the way to get down to calmer water below upper falls. The last picture is looking at the water you would be kayaking,  taken from the upper falls. Maybe not the best place to kayak .

[JOHN SCHENCK]

On 8/31/2020 at 3:39 PM, Paul Trybul said:

Does this help? It looks like a decent portage any way you look at it.

Yes thanks! we may just poke around the lower falls. We’ll see...

[JOHN SCHENCK]

On 8/31/2020 at 5:10 PM, Scott Ferguson said:

There is a second set of falls, the lower falls,  You can put a kayak in there, but I doubt you could kayak up and over the falls to the upper falls.

The first picture is looking upstream toward the lower falls, the second is a closeup of the lower falls.  I don’t think there is any road access to the river between the upper and lower falls.

 

 

So cool! Thanks for sharing the awesome pics! 

[JOHN SCHENCK]

12 hours ago, Kev-mo said:

thanks for the memory jog Scott. we took a family trip there when i was a teeneager and we swam below the falls and i think we even body surfed over them

Memories are everything 

[JOHN SCHENCK]

2 hours ago, Dick G said:

Once you get above the lower falls,  you would have to carry kayak down several stairs to get to the water.  First picture is looking upstream from lower falls , [see Scott's picture]. Second pictures is the way to get down to calmer water below upper falls. The last picture is looking at the water you would be kayaking,  taken from the upper falls. Maybe not the best place to kayak .

Great advice and wonderful pictures. We may just kayak below the lower falls then if it works out.