Up between Laurium and Lake Linden, Hammell Creek goes over an escarpment, making a waterfall. This would not be too notable (the creek doesn’t have a particularly high flowrate), except that the escarpment is something like 110 feet. This makes the waterfall the highest one in the state of Michigan, by a fairly solid margin. Here is the view from the top, I had to take two pictures to get most of it in because it was too tall to fit in one:
read more…My brother lives in Tennessee, and back on April 5, 2026 he sent me these pictures and asked, “Are these termites?”









