• Little Portal Point at sunset. Photo copyright Craig Blacklock

    Pictured Rocks

    National Lakeshore Michigan

  • Fire Ban in Effect

    A FIRE BAN in all drive-in and hike-in campgrounds, effective at 4 p.m. on Thursday, May 24. Due to very hazardous conditions, the ban is in effect until further notice.

  • Chapel Road - last quarter mile closed

    The last quarter-mile of Chapel Road is closed due to construction. Only very limited parking available along Chapel Road. Please park at Miners Beach. More »

  • Sable Falls re-opens, Friday, May 25, 5 p.m.

    The trail and stairs to Sable Falls are closed due to a collapse of the stream bank. Work is nearly done, and the trail will re-open for Memorial Day weekend!

Pictured Rocks Cruise - Boat Tours

Visitors aboard a Pictured Rocks Cruise with Grand Portal Point in the background.

NPS photo by David Kronk

Visitors aboard a Pictured Rocks Cruise near Grand Portal Point.

Non-stop Concessions Operated Boat Tour
Pictured Rocks Cruises, Inc., offers nonstop narrated boat tours of the spectacular sandstone cliffs within Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Each cruise is 2-1/2 to 3 hours long and travels approximately 40 miles round trip.

Pictured Rocks Cruises operates from mid-May to mid-October.  Please check their website for the complete schedule.

All cruises depart from the city dock at the north end of Elm Street in downtown Munising.   

Pictured Rocks Cruises is an authorized National Park Service concessionaire.  

For more information: 
Pictured Rocks Cruises, Inc.
P.O. Box 255
Munising MI 49862
800-650-2379 or 906-387-2379
http://www.picturedrocks.com 

 

In July and August, a Park Ranger narrates the return trip on the 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on the Pictured Rocks Boat Cruise (when NPS staffing permits).

Did You Know?

The Schoolcraft Blast Furnace was located at today's Munising Falls site.

The Schoolcraft/Munising Blast Furnace operated from 1869 to 1877. It produced many tons of pig iron for post Civil War continental expansion. Only ruins remain at this National Register of Historic Places site, located at Munising Falls in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. More...