Walks and Hikes Over a Mile

Miners Falls Trail - Length: 1.2 miles roundtrip. This easy trail takes you through the forest to Miners River, where the park's most powerful waterfall cascades 50 feet over a sandstone cliff. Take another 64 steps down to a lower platform. Leashed pets allowed. Miners Castle to Miners Beach - Length: 2.0 miles roundtrip. Part of the North Country Scenic Trail. Take the trail from Miners Castle downhill to Miners Beach, crossing the Miners River along the way. Enjoy the beach and then hike back up - or shorten the walk by having a friend pick you up in the Miners Beach parking lot. Pets not allowed on the trail. (However pets are allowed at Miners Castle and at Miners Beach - just not on the trail between the two.) Sable Creek Trail - Length: 2.0 miles roundtrip. Pretty wooded walk between the Grand Sable Visitor Center and the Sable Falls area. Part of the North Country Scenic Trail. The trail offers a stroll through a mature maple forest, along Sable Creek, and through an old farm field. Also intersects the Grand Sable Dunes Trail at 0.8 miles. Pets not allowed. Au Sable Light Station - Length: 3.0 miles roundtrip. Leaving from Hurricane River Campground, walk on the old access road (part of the North Country Scenic Trail) back in time to an isolated Lake Superior lighthouse. Exposed shipwreck remains dot the shoreline, and the quiet light station gives you a feeling of yesteryear where families lived and worked from 1874 to 1958. Guided tours of the lighthouse are provided in summer. Leashed pets allowed on road and light station grounds. Bicycles are NOT allowed on this road. White Birch Trail - Length: 2.0 miles one way. Self-guided interpretive trail at Twelvemile Beach Campground explores the natural history of the uplands adjacent to the lake - an environment very different from that near the campground. Non-campers park at the day-use area and walk through the campground to Site 6, where trail begins. The trail will end on the campground road, one-quarter mile east of the trailhead. Leashed pets allowed. CHAPEL BASIN / MOSQUITO AREA - A number of different trails and hikes are available here. All hikes begin at the Chapel/Mosquito trailhead parking lot, at the end of Chapel Road. View and download this map (pdf) before you hike these trails. NO PETS allowed on any of the trails or beaches in this area. Note : Primitive road to trailhead parking with deep pot holes and washouts. LIMITED PARKING AT TRAILHEAD - plan to arrive early in the day. Mosquito Falls - Length: 2.0 miles roundtrip. From the Chapel parking lot, head towards Mosquito Beach. At 0.3 miles take a side trail that leads 0.7 miles to Mosquito Falls. The Mosquito River cascades in short falls over three rock shelves, the highest being 8 feet. Pets not allowed. Chapel Falls - Length: 2.5 miles roundtrip. Leaving from the Chapel parking lot, this easy hike runs along an old roadbed through upland maple forest to stunning, 60-foot high Chapel Falls. Pets not allowed. Mosquito Beach - Length: 3.9 miles roundtrip straight out and back; 4.5 miles via loop back past Mosquito Falls. Trail is usually very muddy and rough. Follow the trail from the Chapel parking lot through lowland hemlock and mixed forest to Mosquito Beach. This beautiful beach is bordered by stunning rock cliffs and sandstone terraces. Return on same trail or continue on loop and return past Mosquito Falls. Pets not allowed. Chapel Rock & Chapel Beach - Length: 6.2 miles roundtrip.Trail passes Chapel Falls and continues to Chapel Rock and Chapel Beach. Take pictures, but keep off Chapel Rock. Return the way you came or make a loop by taking the forest trail back along the north/west side of Chapel Lake. Pets not allowed. Chapel Loop - Length: Full loop, including Mosquito Falls, is 10.5 miles from the parking lot (longer from the road). This popular loop begins at the Chapel parking lot, passes Chapel Falls, Chapel Rock, Chapel Beach and continues along the Pictured Rocks cliffs to Mosquito R...