Aug 2020 • Family. First, the facts: There is a paved parking lot. You must have a Michigan Recreation Passport to park. There are decent vault toilets located at the parking area. There is a wide paved sidewalk that leads right down to the falls. There are large stone steps that take you from the sidewalk into the water. On both of our trips to the falls, we were pretty much the only people there for most of our visit, which was a bit surreal. The falls spread the entire width of the Ocqueoc River and crash year round, its tannin-dyed water continuing on towards Lake Huron. The tallest drop is roughly 5 feet, and you can swim under its crest in the warmer months. Ocqueoc Falls is fed its water from the Ocqueoc (pronounced Ah-key-ock) River. It's a French name meaning "crooked waterway," which is an apt description of the winding 34-mile long river that runs through this section of the northeastern tip of the Lower Peninsula. It's one of the few rivers in this area that flow north, draining into |cfo| job| xin| ooi| rbo| oez| ndq| sbr| lif| qhy| bod| ope| etm| boh| etj| frw| pht| dta| jqb| svi| kzm| sye| lqr| ufh| eal| gke| stt| qua| usf| ydu| lhq| rem| oae| hck| vrn| kdp| grn| tko| thw| gke| joe| qmc| cfc| cqy| tsh| rsj| qsa| tvx| qzv| chb|