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Good morning! I saw the Douglas Houghton Falls and the Hungarian Falls, two of my favorites!

Hungarian & Douglas Houghton

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I love the old car photo! I've been to a lot of the waterfalls in the U.P. but never to the Hungarian Falls. Since I'm going to be in the Keeweenaw in about 10 days, I think this might be the year!

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while we were up there this past weekend, we decided to go up to the Hungarian Falls, but when we got up there a gentleman said they were not running and would not be worth the walk out there. In the spring, of course, would be a better time.

The pic of Sugarloaf sure brings back a bunch of nice memories!

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The Hungarian Falls are great in the spring mickill mouse. As a child, though, I spent many a day up at the Douglas Houghton Falls. We'd pack a picnic lunch and hike on up there. We loved going there. We'd walk until we found a spot where we could get to the bottom without too much trouble. Climbing up was another story, lol. Those falls hold a lot of memories for me. Great times. Too bad people can't go there anymore. My brother spent more time at the Hungarian Falls.

We use to go out to the Douglas Houghton Falls, too. It is ashame it was closed off to the public. ;O(

I always thought the unique configuration of "Douglass Houghton Falls" — which are not visible from the road (M-26) — was as if Paul Bunyan came by and stuck a large round-nosed shovel into the ridge upstream along Hamell Creek, removing a huge shovelful of earth and leaving Hamell Creek to fall over the resulting precipice, thus forming the falls.

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"The story is that the Falls were named after both Douglas Houghton and Christopher C. Douglass. C.C. Douglass was a member of Houghton's survey party and stayed in the Keweenaw where he was one of the founders of Houghton and Hancock along with being an officer for many mines. The names were evidently deliberately reversed from alphabetical order to avoid the unfounded conclusion that the falls were named after Douglas Houghton. Once the old sign disappeared in the '60's, the name Douglas Houghton stuck. "

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When I was younger, I always called them Houghton-Douglas Falls!!!