Local Gems can be found anywhere
If you spend enough time out in the wild you can find some
interesting topographical features. The Grand River Valley has such features.
Some of her river valley walls are 100 feet to 150 feet high.
Some of the Grand River’s tributaries have walls as high as 200 feet.
Paine Creek has a few tributaries that have a gorge that is 200 feet deep. A lot of these streams are ephemeral and have water falls in them.
I have hiked up Paine Creek and to the high falls several times.
The tributary I am going to explore this Saturday is one of them that has 200 feet high walls.
The only way I have accessed it is hiking up from Indian Point Park. The is a water-hike and your feet will be wet most of the hike. There are many waterfalls in this gorge, and this is the main reason I am researching it.
During the winter this area is highly treacherous. I would not advise going here in the Spring due to flash floods. In the fall it would be doable, but again it is subject to any rainstorms in the area. A person could lose their life if they got caught in a high-water event.
For my first time exploring I will be going up in late spring early summer so that there is a less likely chance of me getting into trouble because of a rainstorm.
The mouth of the tertiary stream is at coordinates
41.710822, -81.159653.
