Tannery Falls
Tannery Falls is a waterfall on Tannery Creek located near the city of Munising, Michigan. The Falls are also sometimes called the Rudy M. Olson Memorial Falls.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Munising Falls and Alger Falls.
Munising Falls
Waterfall
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Munising Falls is a waterfall located in Munising in the westernmost portion of the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Alger County, Michigan. The falls drops about 50 feet over a sandstone cliff.
Alger Falls
Waterfall
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Alger Falls is a waterfall located along highway M-28 in Alger County, Michigan near Munising at the junction with M-94. The falls consist of a series of drops, the highest of which is about 15 feet. Alger Falls is situated 2 miles southwest of Tannery Falls.
Munising Front Range Light
Lighthouse
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The Munising Front Range Light and its matching Munising Rear Range Light replaced the ineffective Grand Island East Channel Light in 1905. These two lights combine to guide boats from the open waters of Lake Superior down the East Channel next to Grand Island into the harbor of Munising. Munising Front Range Light is situated 1½ miles west of Tannery Falls.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Munising and Christmas.
Munising
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Munising is a small city in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, on the southern shore of Lake Superior.
Christmas
Village
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Christmas is an unincorporated community in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. Christmas is located within Au Train Township in Alger County, and is located about 2.2 miles northwest of the city of Munising. Christmas is situated 4 miles west of Tannery Falls.
Tannery Falls
- Type: Overfalls
- Description: waterfall in Michigan, United States
- Categories: waterfall and body of water
- Location: Alger, Michigan, Midwest, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Mazanderani to Urdu—“Tannery Falls” goes by many names.
- Mazanderani: “ئوشار تانری”
- Mazanderani: “تانری ئوشار”
- Persian: “آبشار تانری”
- Persian: “ابشار تانری”
- Spanish: “Tannery Falls”
- Tajik: “Обшори Таннерӣ”
- Tajik: “Таннери”
- Tajik: “Шаршараи Таннерӣ”
- Urdu: “ٹینری آبشار”
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