The St. Croix river flows from it′s source near Solon Springs, in northeast Wisconsin in a southwest direction to the Minnesota state line just above Danbury, Wisconsin and continues in a southwesterly direction as the state line between Minnesota and Wisconsin until it turns in a southerly direction, curves back to the southeast to St. Croix Fall, Wisconson.

After the falls, it meanders mostly south until it joins with the Mississippi River at Prescott, Wisconsin.

Along the route of the river are steep sided rock bluffs with numerous overlooks.

Solon Springs

Mississippi River

Left: Totagatic-Namekagon, Yellow, Clam, Trade, Apple, Willow

Right: Sand Creek, Kettle, Snake,

Arriving in the city of St. Croix Falls, I look for where I may photograph the waterfalls. I come to an overlook and find only a large dam with a spillway on one side. A sign at the overlook park informs that the falls, a series of turbulent cascades which dropped 55 feet in less than six miles were impounded in the early 1900s by the hydroelectric dam in front of me.

The cliffs along the river are called the Traprock Bluffs where a grist and flour mill and other shops flourished here in the late 1800s. After the dam was built, the people here ruefully noted, We once had a mill by the dam site, but we now only have a dam at the mill site

After taking photos of the St. Croix Falls dam, I leave and drive south to the Interstate State Park to look for another view point. I find out that there is a Summit Rock Trail and an Echo Canyon Trail. I decide to do the Summit Trail.

After a short climb up to the cliffs overlooking the river, I begin taking photos