Au Train Falls — Local services in Au Train Township

The road isn't open to vehicular traffic the entire way to the falls; it's gated, for access by employees of... the power company, I think? But you can still park near the gate and walk down. It was a cool and slightly rainy morning when we visited, so we didn't take advantage of walking in the water like others have. Still pretty cool, a little wider than many other falls we've seen in the UP. There appears to be some sort of trail winding along the east bank; we didn't venture too far along it because it wasn't exactly marked well, nor maintained, and seemed to have been the victim of erosion in several places. A little farther south on the road (closer back toward Autrain Forest Lake Rd), there's another place to pull out and park where you can see the other set of falls, which are even steeper (though much less water flowing over them). We were able to pick our way down to the base of this, though, again, doesn't exactly seem professionally-maintained or anything. Didn't see any "No Trespassing" signs or anything, though, so I...

So beautiful. So the weird thing about it was we were on our way towards munising from Escanaba and GPS brought us though these side st and that's how we found it by accident. Same thing happened on way back it took us different way and we found a different water fall which I believe wasn't by accident, but a very pleasant...

Short walk from the parking lot. You can sneak a peak into the hydro electric plant and see the turbines humming away. Quiet area full of photo opportunities. Waterfalls are beautiful and serene. Great to learn of the harvesting of power from such a small are without disturbing the natural flow of water...