The largest and most complex of the Gooseberry Falls series, its middle cascade spreads the Gooseberry River across a series of stair-stepping ledges of Precambrian lava flows (basalt and diabase) of varying textures. The water reaches Lake Superior soon, for the river’s mouth is just a few hundred yards downstream. One of my favorite views actually was through an uncommon gap in the forest cover from above the falls’ elevation.
