Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
Michigan
Tonight
🌗 46% moon
5.2 h fully dark
Hikes
Strenuous
🔴
Crowds
moderate
Open today
Open
Entrance
$25
Miners Falls Trail Closed June 23-25
The Miners Falls Trail will be closed to all visitors from Tuesday, June 23 until Thursday, June 25.
Potable Water Unavailable at the Au Sable Light Station
Drinking water is currently unavailable at the Au Sable Light Station.
Munising Falls Trail Closed Until Further Notice
The Munising Falls Trail within Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore is closed until further notice. Approximately 75-feet of the paved trail was washed out April 28th from recent heavy rainfall and seasonal snow melt.
Official NPS alert →Sandstone cliffs, beaches, waterfalls, sand dunes, inland lakes, deep forest, and wild shoreline beckon you to visit Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. The power of Lake Superior shapes the park's coastal features and affects every ecosystem, creating a unique landscape to explore. Hiking, camping, sightseeing, and four-season outdoor opportunities abound.
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Entrance fees
$25.00 — Entrance - Private Vehicle
$20.00 — Entrance - Motorcycle
$15.00 — Entrance - Snowmobile
$15.00 — Entrance - Per Person
$25.00 — Commercial Entrance - Sedan
$40.00 — Commercial Entrance - Van
$40.00 — Commercial Entrance - Mini-bus
$100.00 — Commercial Entrance - Motor Coach
Hours & seasons
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore is open year-round, 24 hours a day, though most roads are closed by snow in the winter. Sand Point Road is the only park road plowed in winter.
Generally open:
winterspringsummerfallHours are reported by the park — verify before you go.
📞 906-387-3700
✉ piro_information@nps.govConditions
Quietest months (fewer crowds): Jan, Mar, Nov, Dec
Typical crowds: moderate
Weather now: ☀️ Clear, 72°F
☀️ 76°/54°
🌧️ 80°/60°
🌫️ 70°/58°
Typical monthly recreation visits · NPS avg 2023–2025 — orange months are the quietest by crowds.
Quietest months
Relative crowds by month — lighter is quieter; ringed months are the calmest by crowds.
Jan
5%
Feb
8%
Mar
6%
Apr
7%
May
29%
Jun
56%
Jul
100%
Aug
95%
Sep
61%
Oct
47%
Nov
4%
Dec
1%
Log a sky reading
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Things to do
Commercial Tours
Drive-In Camping at Pictured Rocks · Camping is allowed in this campground for up to 14 days at a time, or 14 days total in a calendar year.
Snowshoeing at Pictured Rocks · 2.65 mi
Walks and Hikes Over a Mile · 1.2 mi · Hikes can take as little as an hour or can last most of the day.
Walks and Hikes of One Mile or Less · 100 mi · Most of these short walks and hikes can be done in less than an hour.
Places To See in One Hour · 1 mi · 800 ft gain
Swimming at Pictured Rocks
Non-Kayak Boating at Pictured Rocks
Campgrounds
Au Sable East Group Backpacking Site ↗ · 1 sites
Au Sable East Individual Backpacking Sites ↗ · 6 sites
Beaver Creek Individual Backpacking Sites ↗ · 6 sites
Benchmark Individual Backpacking Sites ↗ · 6 sites
Chapel Individual Backpacking Sites ↗ · 6 sites
Cliffs Group Backpacking Site ↗ · 1 sites
Cliffs Individual Backpacking Sites ↗ · 3 sites
Coves Group Backpacking Site ↗ · 1 sites
Coves Individual Backpacking Sites ↗ · 5 sites
Grand Sable Lake Boat-In Site ↗ · 1 sites
Hurricane River Campground ↗ · 21 sites
Little Beaver Lake Campground ↗ · 8 sites
Lowney Creek Group Backpacking Site ↗ · 1 sites
Lowney Creek Individual Backpacking Sites ↗ · 4 sites
Masse Homestead Group Backpacking Site ↗ · 1 sites
Masse Homestead Individual Backpacking Sites ↗ · 3 sites
Mosquito River Group Backpacking Site ↗ · 1 sites
Mosquito River Individual Backpacking Sites ↗ · 5 sites
Pine Bluff Individual Backpacking Sites ↗ · 5 sites
Potato Patch Individual Backpacking Sites ↗ · 3 sites
Sevenmile Creek Group Backpacking Site ↗ · 1 sites
Sevenmile Creek Individual Backpacking Sites ↗ · 5 sites
Trappers Lake Group Backpacking Site ↗ · 1 sites
Trappers Lake Individual Backpacking Sites ↗ · 5 sites
Twelvemile Beach Campground ↗ · 36 sites
Visitor centers
Grand Sable Visitor Center
Miners Castle Visitor Contact Station
Munising Falls Visitor Center
Accessibility
3 accessible campground(s)
37 audio-described place(s)
Reported by the park — verify before you go.
Not an official safety source — always defer to NPS.gov and rangers for life-safety decisions.
By the numbers
A visual read on Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore — its character, trails, sky, and weather.
Park fingerprint
How this park scores across the dimensions travelers care about.
Trail difficulty
Difficulty mix across this park's trails.
Trail profile
Each dot is a trail — distance vs. elevation gain, by difficulty.
3-day forecast
Daily high and low temperatures (°F).
Passport stamps
Mark the stamps you've collected — they show in your memory and along your routes.
🎫 Grand Sable Visitor Center
🎫 Munising Falls Visitor Center
🎫 Munising Falls Visitor Contact Station
🎫 Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
Places to see
A Frog's Eye View Exhibit
audio
A Gift from the Glaciers Wayside
audio
A Lumberjack's Life Exhibit
audio
A Song with Purpose Exhibit
audio
A Tumbling Cascade Wayside
audio
A Wetland at Work Exhibit
audio
Accessible Fishing Dock
An Era Vanishes Wayside
audio
Aquatic Engineers Exhibit
audio
Au Sable Light Station
Au Sable Light Station Wayside
audio
BARK Ranger
Audio & media
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Learn more
Plan like a park ranger at Pictured Rocks! Check out these 10 tips for visiting the park before your next adventure!
Recipients of the 2005 NPS Environmental Achievement Awards
Hopa Mountain, in partnership with the National Park Service, is pleased to announce the 2019 awardees of the Connecting with our Homelands travel grants. Twenty-one Indigenous organizations, schools, and nonprofits have been awarded travel funds for trips to national park units across 12 states/territories within the United States.
A summary of amphibian monitoring data collected in 2019 at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.
A summary of amphibian monitoring data collected in seven Great Lakes Network parks as of 2019.
A summary of bat monitoring data collected at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore from 2015 through 2018.
A summary of acoustic bat monitoring in Great Lakes Network parks from 2015 through 2019.
Surveying bats using mist netting in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.
Ranger School
Park-grounded courses you can learn with the Ranger.
How Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore connects
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