The Porcupine Mountains in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

The Porcupine Mountains, located in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, are home to the Lake of the Clouds, many waterfalls, hiking trails and pure wilderness. Part of it is located in Ottawa National Forest and part of it is located in Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, and all of it is beautiful.
This video is part of our epic road trip to all 5 US Great Lakes (Ontario, Erie, Huron, Superior & Michigan) where we visited Niagara Falls in New York, Sleeping Bear Dunes, Pictured Rocks and Apostle Islands National Lakeshores, Mackinac Island, the Porcupine Mountains ("Porkies" as they say in da UP), the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Ohio, the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit, the Lakeshore bike trail in Chicago, Frankenmuth the year-round Christmas city - are you tired yet? Oh and we ate a lot of pasties and fudge. Like a lot of fudge. So much fudge that we actually take no offense to the Yoopers and Trolls calling us Fudgies. We've been called much worse. Stay tuned for a ton of videos showing our adventures like dune climbing, kayaking, hiking or biking, that we will continue to link below as they are released. The United States of America is a huge place and this is just one small portion of it.
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0:00 Intro
0:30 Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park
0:46 Lake of the Clouds
1:35 Escarpment Trail
2:13 Summit Peak
3:06 Black River Scenic Byway
3:38 Great Conglomerate Falls
4:07 Potawatomi Falls
4:37 Gorge Falls
5:11 Sandstone Falls
5:49 Rainbow Falls

[@darkhorse23xx]

Former Chicagoan, been to the Porcupine Mts a couple of times, but not in 40+ years. None of those lookouts existed back then, you hiked as close to the falls as your courage allowed. Good memories for sure.

[@MagellanandGreyhound]

That’s crazy. We actually thought the whole area was still very much underdeveloped and untouched compared to many other places. The stuff we picked was obviously marked, but we got the sense that there was so much there that we just couldn’t see. That’s why they call it a wilderness :)

[@ImFromMichigan]

I'm taking a backpacking trip here last week of August/First week of September for 5 days. Super excited I'm swimming too idc how cold the water is lol.

[@MagellanandGreyhound]

That sounds awesome! The water was pretty cold when we went in July - maybe 59°. I imagine Superior will be at or near its warmest when you go though. Maybe you get 68°? 😂

[@user-or6yn8pm3c]

Wow

[@michaeladams3500]

you have to come back in the spring to see the falls then. it is terrifyingly beautiful.

[@MagellanandGreyhound]

Oh man! I am not surprised. It was such a beautiful area. We were hoping to revisit one day to check out many of the falls we didn’t do.

[@waterfallmadman]

The views at the first spot were amazing. All those waterfalls were really nice. 👍😁

[@MagellanandGreyhound]

There are apparently a bunch of other falls along the river too, but I guess they weren't as nice to build trails too haha

[@vs123]

Water falls beautiful

[@MagellanandGreyhound]

They really are!

[@AdventureMuse]

What a beautiful area - and so green! Looks like some fun mtb trails to me. 😅Always love a waterfall

[@MagellanandGreyhound]

My understanding is that the mountain biking trails there also serve as the skiing trails in winter :)

[@ReSprout]

I love Zeusy's F-U face! 🤣🤣

[@vs123]

I love dog is so cute

[@MagellanandGreyhound]

He is the best! 😁

[@kclark8080]

Ive been several times but I'm sorry to say I have not seen some of those waterfalls. Excuse to go back, I guess!

[@MagellanandGreyhound]

There are so many in the area. No joke, maybe a dozen or two more. We simply ran out of time.

[@AL4N.]

There's over 60 water falls. Also hike the other side of the river for the best view of rainbow falls. Access is at the end of the road parking lot, across the suspension bridge. The bond falls hike is my favorite in the area.

[@MagellanandGreyhound]

@@AL4N. that’s nuts! I knew there were a lot. Have to visit again 😁

[@AL4N.]

@@MagellanandGreyhound 60 within the porkie area. There are over 300 total in the U.P. Alot of them have more than one way to get to them. Some pour right into lake superior.

[@MagellanandGreyhound]

@@AL4N. That's amazing. We had been to the Pictured Rocks area prior to this and saw a few. I remember them giving us a pamphlet with dozens to check out. It was overwhelming :)

[@MVPATRICKTD]

Mosquito paradise there

[@MagellanandGreyhound]

It was haha. Worst ever for us was Pictured Rocks and the Everglades though.

[@hammadamin8443]

How far is it from Detroit?

[@MagellanandGreyhound]

The main entrance is near Silver City almost 9 hours from Detroit.

[@hammadamin8443]

What city is it in Michigan?

[@kclark8080]

Just outside of Ontonagon... Silver City technically isn't a real place.