Fall Travel Series: Amnicon Falls

We’re back and we’re visiting another State Park, this one in Wisconsin. Near our other northern neighbor, Minnesota, and south east of the city of Superior, we find ourselves at Amnicon Falls in South Range. Much like the nostalgic feel of the cabins at Goodman State Park this park peaks your interest immediately with a historic covered bridge and stone steps that lure you past the rocky rapids and into the forest. The further you venture the more water features reveal themselves. Some a gentle flow within the river, others a hidden falls disappearing in a dark woodland pool.

Our day was full of fog and mist that isolated us as we experienced each one along our hike through tall straight pines and past the remains of stone bridges and stairs. The stone rubble, at home among the dark rock ground and chiseled ledges, left you to imagine the treacherous trails that first brought you through this terrain when it might have been a trail from one town to the next.

The total area the park encompasses is over 800 acres with close to 2 miles of trails to explore. It offers campsites for summer time with swimming in the larger falls and encourages winter visitors to use the trails for snowshoeing. If you can’t take in the park during the fall I would imagine the falls are unique and beautiful as they start to freeze for winter. You just might have to be wary on the rock trials as you pick your way through the woods with frost and ice. I would personally love to experience this hike again as it was beginning to snow.

Amnicon Falls is definitely a place you should see for yourself and find your own adventure among the ancient feeling stone and charming covered bridge.

Enjoy these last few images that show only some of the water falls experienced on our hike and try to imagine the sounds of the rushing water and babbling brook.

Join my next Fall Travel Series destination that will take you from sand dune cliffs to a wild marsh and down a cedar lined staircase to a beach at the bottom of a gorge- all in one hike!

Coming to the Blog later this month!

Thanks for hiking Amnicon Falls with me!