Rocky Forty Falls is a cascade waterfall about 15 feet tall on Siemens Creek in Gogebic County, Michigan, roughly 3.5 miles northwest of Bessemer.
The falls
The height is listed at about 15 feet, though the figure is marked unconfirmed and no separate tallest-drop or drop-count number is given; an earlier recorded figure for the site was about 8 feet. Siemens Creek drops here in a single cascade, moving down over a series of rock steps rather than in one plunge, and carries two recorded waterfalls along its course. The falls sit at an elevation of about 1,238 feet, in a county that records 44 waterfalls in all.
Getting there
A trailhead, parking area, road surface and any fee for Rocky Forty Falls are not documented. A separate county-wide waterfall listing places the falls generally near Ironwood, also in Gogebic County.
Nearby
Upper Rocky Forty Falls, also on Siemens Creek, is about 0.2 mile away. Powder Horn Falls, on Powder Mill Creek, is about 1.8 miles away, and Peterson Falls, on the Montreal River, is about 4.3 miles. Montreal Falls, also on the Montreal River across the state line in Wisconsin, is about 4.4 miles away.
Distances are straight-line.