5 documented waterfalls in Minnesota, when each one actually runs, and what the river is doing right now where a gauge exists.
Trail status, closures and safety rules belong to each falls' managing agency, named and linked on every page.
Each card carries the typical big-water window drawn from the falls' actual driver, and the latest USGS reading on its feeding river where a gauge exists. The full page for each falls explains the season, shows today against the USGS percentile band, and quotes the managing agency on access.
The gateway falls of Minnesota's North Shore: Upper, Middle and Lower Falls stacked through a basalt gorge, roaring at melt and flashing with every storm.
The 60 foot centerpiece of Tettegouche State Park, the tallest falls entirely inside Minnesota, on a short steep river that lives and dies with the weather.
Longfellow's 53 foot city waterfall in Minneapolis, swinging between spring torrent, drought-summer trickle and celebrated frozen curtain, with a gauge a few hundred yards upstream.
Minnesota's tallest waterfall, 120 feet of border-straddling wild water on the Pigeon River, in a state park run cooperatively with the Grand Portage Band.
The double falls of southern Minnesota, water falling twice in Dakota, in the state's third oldest park, sharing the prairie with a bison herd.
Live readings: USGS Water Services (National Water Information System). Instantaneous values and daily statistics services. U.S. Geological Survey data are works of the United States Government and are in the public domain.
Most of Minnesota's documented falls run on snowmelt, so they peak when the high country lets go and fade through the summer. The mix here is 3 snowmelt, 2 rain across the 5, and 2 of them have an active USGS gauge on or near the stream.
Windows are typical-year climatology from each falls' driver, not forecasts. Live readings and percentile bands are USGS data, public domain; where a page says a river is above or below typical, that comparison is ours and is labelled. Access and safety belong to each falls' managing agency, named on its page. National picture →