Tahquamenon General Store

04/23/2025

Road flooded and impassable. Please do not attempt. So if any of my cabin people have cabins in this area.

04/22/2025

Im getting live bait tomorrow. Crawlers and red worms.

04/20/2025

It's was well worth Opening today, been pretty steady already. Open till 6 pm.

04/20/2025

Business opportunity

Tahquamenon Falls State Park continues to seek bids for hiker shuttle services between the Upper & Lower Falls. Previous attempts to attract bidders have been unsuccessful and we are now facing the very real possibility that there will be NO hiker shuttle services this summer at Tahquamenon Falls State Park.

Although prospective bidders must still complete the bid package (see link below), the insurance requirements are the only non-negotiable terms. All proposals will be considered at the time of submission, including those with minimal revenue percentages paid to the State, as well as alternative schedules for operation.

Please contact the park directly for more information 906-492-3415 and help spread the word!

www.michigan.gov/StateParkConcessions

04/19/2025

Happy Easter everyone. We will be Open for limited Hours. 12-6pm. Everyone else is closed.

04/19/2025

This was the actual post

🐟 THE SMELT ARE RUNNING! 🐟
Warm spring nights growing up in the U.P. meant one thing - I would be staying up late for the best party of them all. The annual Dipping of the Smelt Party!
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We would all pile into the car and head off for the dirt road leading to the Carp River near the old Mackinac Trail. By the time we got there smelt anglers and bonfires would already dot the river banks just before sunset.
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Back then the smelt would be so thick you could fill any number of five-gallon tubs in a matter of minutes just using hand-dip nets. Huge bonfires would hold vats filled with oil. The five or six inch long smelt would be dropped in whole (guts and all), fried in the oil for a few minutes, and eaten as fast as they were fried.
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It was a festival atmosphere, especially when the smelt ran at night. There were grandfathers, grandmothers, teenage girls, 20-something boys, even kids still in diapers.
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You could here the shouts up and down the banks of the river . . .
“Bucket full!”
“New net!"
"Frying time!"
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We kids would help by keeping the fires stoked, running buckets to and fro, singing songs and telling jokes. Oh, and watching the fish frying over the open fires.
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All that remained was the eating, which was always the best part of all. I honestly think as many smelt were consumed riverside as were packed in coolers and carried back home.
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Spring smelt runs have not been the same in recent years. These days, smelt are breeding more in lake waters so we’re not seeing as many heading up stream. Still, a fishing license, a smelt net, a bucket, a flashlight and a pair of waders are basically all that you need to have the time of your life.
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Of course, you need to know when the smelt are running to take full advantage of the experience - with any luck the run will come at night .

04/13/2025

My beautiful granddaughters at their high school musical last night. Very proud grandma right here! Thank you all for understanding my early closure last night so I could attend!

04/12/2025

Still OPEN. Today would be an absolute beautiful day to be out.

04/07/2025

We got a solid 6" of new snow! Did we need anymore? Let me show a few pictures of what we still have. Not not be the best ones, but gives you an idea . I'm so ready for it to be gone, but after what the Northern Lower got, I will not complain.

04/05/2025

Hearing Trail 8 & 453/452 are incredible shape. Even though the trails are closed, some still can be ridden. Through state land. But any ways, Chic still has those delicious brats for your trail stop.

03/31/2025

Morning! Not saying good because I know some are not in a good place in my Northern lower area. I'm so sorry for all the devastation your experiencing. I pray you can recover quickly, or have family you can depend on. I've been watching videos and it's heartbreaking to see. Us on the other hand faired great. No power outages at all for us, even though we got freezing rain at times but guess we were farther North and turned to snow. About 4-5" I'd say. What a helluva season we've had. Just letting you know your all in my thoughts and prayers. Not to mention the numerous tornadoes yesterday as well.

03/26/2025

Just to give the heads up , my fuel situation is on the low side. There's load restrictions right now and I can only get 600 gals delivered this week. I'm about out of Premium. I'm only getting 100 gals tomorrow and 500 no lead. Seeing it's the last weekend of the trail being open, and the falls trails have some open water, I'm going to be reluctant to get more premium. I will have good Octane booster when I run out. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause, but it's rough to make that decision.

03/22/2025

Info about opening reservation up for the summer.

Next Friday, friends! Summer reservations for the Portage and Hemlock campgrounds open March 28th at 8 a.m. The Portage Loop will re-open June 13, and the Hemlock Loop on June 27.

📋 Reserve here: midnrreservations.com

The Lower Falls campgrounds will re-open with newly completed water system upgrades, made possible with federal relief funding from Gov. Whitmer's Building Michigan Together Plan.

🛠 Building Michigan Together Plan: michigan.gov/whitmer/news/press-releases/2022/03/30/building-michigan-together-plan-includes-largest-infrastructure-investments-in-state-history

03/22/2025

Warning: trail 45 out to the falls is now opened up and not safe to go through. Sledder just here and was soaked to waist from falling through. That's the second one. This is from the store east in the swampy area.

03/20/2025

Survey time: Who's all coming to get in another ride? If it's not going to be busy, I'll have enough gas, but if not I'll get more. We ended up getting 5" of heavy wet snow.