About Wagner Falls
Wagner Falls was a small 20ft multi-tiered waterfall that was pretty convenient for us to visit. It was just outside the town limits of Munising, and we only needed to walk on a short trail and boardwalk to a lookout yielding the photo you see at the top of this page. So given its convenience factor as well as its dimunitive size, we saved this waterfall for last, which was at the end of a series of waterfalling excursions in and around Munising at the end of a very long day of binge waterfalling (especially after all Pictured Rocks Cruises were cancelled on that day due to high winds so we actually had the time to do most of the worthwhile waterfalls).
Our visit was in the Autumn and given the somewhat light but graceful flow, it seemed like the falls might be seasonal to the extent that it would flow throughout Spring and Summer, then diminish unless it would get replenished by Summer thunderstorms. That said, there are plenty of photos in the literature (including ours) with fall colors juxtaposed with the falls having satisfactory flow so it might typically have more reliable flow than I’m giving it credit for. I believe that we might have benefitted from some rain storms in the weeks prior to our arrival, which resulted in the flow that you see in the photos on this page.
The short excursion only took us 20 minutes total, including the walking and picture-taking. Perhaps the greater challenge to this excursion would be to try to both enjoy the falls while not disturbing the tripod-wielding photographers who pretty much dominated most of the limited real-estate at the lookout at the end of the trail. Indeed, this waterfall seemed to be very popular with photographers thanks to its graceful strandy characteristic (i.e. the kind that Julie tended to say would have “character”).
Finally, I noticed that sometimes this waterfall would also be referred to as Wagner’s Falls or Wagners Falls. I didn’t know who this Wagner was, but he must’ve been important enough to have a waterfall and creek named after him.
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