Hungarian Falls

Up in the heart of the old Copper Country, above the village of Hubbell, a small creek puts on a show far bigger than its size suggests.

Hungarian Falls isn’t one waterfall but a series of them on Dover Creek in Houghton County — three main drops, the largest about fifty feet, adding up to roughly ninety feet of falling water over reddish Jacobsville sandstone. Each drop has its own character, and the wooded setting, with views out toward the Portage waterway, has a storybook quality that makes it a longtime local favorite. The upper falls and the land around them were placed in a conservancy and kept open for visitors.

There’s a tantalizing neighbor, too: not far away stands Douglass Houghton Falls, reckoned to be the tallest waterfall in Michigan — long stranded on private land and famously hard (and dangerous) to reach, though there have been efforts to open it safely to the public.