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Saxon Falls, Michigan
Saxon Falls on the Montreal River in Michigan.
Open in BirdTrout46.5392, -90.3745 · Gogebic County · NID MI00196. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.
What the runs do here
Montreal River carries no anadromous run on our corridor map, so this page makes no claim about salmon or steelhead at this dam. What it sits on is coldwater — resident trout water — and the section below says which classification says so.
The structure
- Owner
- Northern States Power Co Public Utility
- Purpose
- Hydroelectric, Recreation
- Completed
- 1912
- Type
- Gravity
- Height
- 35 ft
- Length
- 510 ft
- Spillway
- Controlled
- Storage
- 550 acre-ft · 69 acre pool
- Drainage
- 262 sq mi
- Condition
- Satisfactory · Low hazard potential
- Status
- Normal Operations
From the National Inventory of Dams (USACE). Hazard potential is a downstream-consequence classification, not a statement about the structure's condition.
The water above and below
- Montreal River 0.01 mi from the dam · Class II · wild supplemented (WDNR) · typed Cold
Coldwater designation is the state's own classification. A dam sits on one river and this list is every designated reach within a mile and a half of it, so a tributary mouth shows up here too.
Water right now
No USGS temperature gauge we read reports within 20 miles of this dam, so this page has no live number for it. That is a gap in the gauge network, not a judgement about the water.
Getting to it
- Saxon Harbor Access 1 3.4 mi · boat launch · Lake Superior
- Saxon Harbor Access 2 3.4 mi · boat launch · Lake Superior
Public access sites near the dam, straight-line distance. A dam itself is private property unless its owner says otherwise; these are the places the state lists as open.
Fly shops nearby
- Big Sno Outfitters 16.0 mi
- Anglers All 23.0 mi · Ashland
- River Rock Bait Shop 25.1 mi
- The Bait Shack 28.1 mi