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"Dead River Falls might take a local to help you find."</font>
Funny how common that is in da UP.
'Tis something I have observed since at least the 1950's.
There a great abundance of both natural features (such as waterfalls, and others) and cultural features (as from the copper mining days of yore), in the UP, but generally they have neither been "developed" nor "promoted" to any significant extent. You're lucky to find a highway sign. Example:
O-Kun-De-Kun Falls (see an aerial view
here) which for decades lacked even a highway sign along US-45, still with some unimproved (i.e. wet, muddy) trails (the best ones). Even Michigan's one really substantial waterfall, Upper Tahquamenon Falls (Michigan's "Niagara Falls", a.k.a. Root Beer Falls), see
Tahquamenon Falls State Park is certainly not heavily promoted. (In a way, I can understand a lack of enthusiasm for turning such pristine beauty into a "Niagara Falls"!)
Similarly, the development of
even the premier copper mining era feature in the Copper Country, the
Quincy Mine, with the prominent hoist house atop the hill above Hancock by the
Quincy Mine Hoist Association is still very much a work in progress, for the past 51 years, with a long way to go.
Another work-in-progress, the
Champion #4 Shafthouse, acquired on October 25, 1996(!), saving the historic structure from the clutches of the scrapper's torch, and now undergoing restoration by
Painesdale Mine & Shaft, Inc.
Not to mention the one-of-a-kind
Quincy Smelter, which was allowed to deteriorate to its present state over 40-plus years before any serious restoration efforts were initiated. See the
Quincy Smelter Association.
Of course it's not
entirely due to indifference, with the "cultural features", it largely comes down to
money, never in abundant supply in da UP.
