Agate Falls Scenic Site

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{{Infobox waterfall

| name = Agate Falls

| photo = Agate Falls (265409244).jpg

| photo_caption = Agate Falls on the Middle Branch

| location = Ontonagon County, Michigan

| coords = {{coord|46.48083|-89.09096|type:waterbody_region:US-MI|display=inline,title|name=Agate Falls}}

| watercourse = Ontonagon River

| type = Cascade

| height = {{convert|39|ft}}

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| number_drops = 1

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The Agate Falls Scenic Site is a waterfall and scenic site located in Interior Township, in southeastern Ontonagon County, Michigan. The waterfall is 7 miles (11 km) southeast of Bruce Crossing, Michigan on the state highway M-28.

Agate Falls is a 39-foot-high (12 m) waterfall of the Middle Branch of the Ontonagon River. Dropping down from the highlands of the western Upper Peninsula, this river drops {{convert|875|ft|m}} from the Bond Falls Flowage to Lake Superior, and Agate Falls is part of this change in elevation.

The water flows over a shelf of erosion-resistant sandstone.{{cite book

| year = 2002

| title = Michigan Atlas and Gazetteer (10th ed.)

| publisher = DeLorme

| location = Yarmouth, Maine

| id =

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The falls can be seen from a trail accessible from a parking lot on M-28 or from a sturdy railroad bridge which now is part of a snowmobile and atv trail. This bridge, which once carried the tracks of the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway, spans the falls. A roadside picnic area offers simple recreational opportunities.