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罗克河瀑布，上半岛，密歇根州，美国 Rock River Falls, Upper Peninsula, Michigan (© Matt Anderson Photography/Getty Images)

爱上密歇根 Falling for Michigan

罗克河瀑布，上半岛，密歇根州

密歇根州罗克河峡谷深处，罗克河瀑布在冰川雕琢的景观中悄然显现，周遭密林环绕，层层历史沉淀。在上半岛这片土地上，人类足迹绵延数千年：原住民阿尔冈昆语族之后，法国与英国探险者接踵而至；19世纪采矿与伐木业繁荣时期，芬兰、瑞典及法裔加拿大移民在此定居。如今这片人烟稀少的区域仅容纳着密歇根州3%的居民，森林与瀑布依旧保留着近乎原始的宁静。

要抵达瀑布，需沿着蜿蜒小径徒步前行，途中松柏参天、枫树成荫，林荫下蕨类与野花尽情舒展。红松鼠穿梭其间，白尾鹿悄然移动，鸥鸟与啄木鸟的鸣叫在海瓦萨国家森林回荡。小径尽头，一道18英尺高的瀑布倾泻而下，汇入清澈水潭。随着季节更替，这里展现出不同的风貌：夏日阳光在水面流转跳跃，秋日将树冠染成绚烂火海，冬日则为岩石披上晶莹冰晶。在罗克河瀑布，每一次造访，都是一次感官与自然灵魂的全新邂逅。

Rock River Falls, Upper Peninsula, Michigan

Nestled within Michigan's Rock River Canyon Wilderness, Rock River Falls emerges amid a landscape shaped by glaciers, dense woods, and layers of history. In the Upper Peninsula, humans have left their traces for millennia: Indigenous Algonquian-speaking peoples were followed by French and British explorers, and waves of Finnish, Swedish, and French-Canadian immigrants settled there during the 19th-century mining and logging booms. Today, this sparsely populated region hosts barely 3% of Michigan's residents, cradling its forests and waterfalls in near-natural serenity.

Reaching the falls requires a moderately challenging hike along winding paths lined with towering pines and maples, their shade cooling the ferns and wildflowers below. Red squirrels dart, white-tailed deer move silently, and the calls of loons and pileated woodpeckers echo through the Hiawatha National Forest. At the trail's end, the 18-foot waterfall spills into a clear pool, transformed by seasonal shifts: summer light flickers across the water, autumn sets the canopy ablaze, and winter drapes ice over rocks in glistening formations. At Rock River Falls, each visit offers a fresh sensory journey through the wild soul of northern Michigan.

豪猪山荒野国家公园中的小路，美国密歇根州 Escarpment Trail in Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, Michigan (© Pat & Chuck Blackley/Alamy)

Autumn comes to the Porcupines

The Escarpment Trail leads up to some of the park's best viewpoints for Lake of the Clouds and the Upper Carp River Valley. And in autumn, when this photo was taken, hikers are treated to a kaleidoscope of foliage as the hardwood forest canopy alights with fall color.

Autumn—specifically the fourth Saturday in September—is also time for National Public Lands Day. Established in 1994, the observance was created by the National Environmental Education Foundation. The main goal of National Public Lands Day is to promote volunteering to help maintain our amazing protected public lands across the nation. It's also a free day for most national and state parks—including Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park.

豪猪山到了秋天

悬崖小径通向公园内云湖和鲤鱼河上游河谷的最佳景观。在秋天，当这张照片被拍摄时，徒步旅行者们会看到万花筒般的树叶，因为阔叶林的树冠被秋天的颜色照亮了。

秋天，特别是九月的第四个星期六，也是全国公共土地日的时间。成立于1994，庆祝活动是由国家环境教育基金会创建的。国家公共土地日的主要目标是促进志愿活动，帮助维护全国范围内令人惊叹的受保护公共土地。对于包括豪猪山荒野州立公园在内的大多数国家公园和州立公园来说，这也是一个免费的一天。

At the shore of an inland sea

We're looking out from a cavern at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The area's named for its colorful sandstone cliffs, which stretch for 15 miles along the shores of the largest of the Great Lakes, Lake Superior. As groundwater leaches out of the rocks, it carries minerals such as iron, manganese, and copper that paint the cliffs in shades of red, pink, black, green, and other colors. The park itself, which is roughly the size of five Manhattans, boasts waterfalls, beaches, and rock formations—some resembling human profiles and castle turrets—carved over time by the relentless waves and unforgiving weather of Yooper Country.

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