Amnicon Falls State Park
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Amnicon Falls State Park is on the Amnicon River, about a dozen miles southeast of Superior, where the river drops over a run of waterfalls and rapids on its way to Lake Superior. The falls are there because of the Douglas Fault, an ancient break in the rock where the hard, dark rock of the riverbed meets softer sandstone. The Horton Covered Bridge crosses the river to an island between the falls. It is a bowstring bridge of a design Charles Horton patented in the late 1890s, and it was a highway bridge before it was moved here in 1930 so that visitors could reach the island; the Civilian Conservation Corps gave it its roof in 1939. I stopped there in the late morning of August 12, 2021, on my way home from Ashland, and went on to Pattison State Park afterward. I walked the trail along the river from the Upper Falls, where the water pours down a chute of dark rock, to the falls below the covered bridge, where it spreads over a ledge into a pool walled in red sandstone.
Photos from Amnicon Falls State Park
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The Upper Falls.
The Horton Covered Bridge, moved here in 1930.
The river below the Upper Falls.