great lakes

According to the captain, an enormous serpent had started thrashing around near his boat, having been startled by the gunshots. He reported that the creature was huge—easily over 5 meters long

A rare, clear winter day in Michigan allowed satellites to catch a cloud-free shot of Michigan's snow coverage this week.

Babe Ruth hit his first major league home run at Hanlan’s Point Stadium in Toronto. It landed in Lake Ontario and is believed to still be there.

White Shoal Lighthouse, the tallest lighthouse on the Great Lakes and only candy-striped lighthouse in the U.S., is available to book for overnight stays.

Some of these things are the stuff of nightmares!

Although they are separated by the Straits of Mackinac, can Lake Michigan and Lake Huron technically be considered the same lake?

Let's say you did want to visit them all. First off, you'd have to be retired because it would be a 7-day-a-week adventure. If you visited 5 islands a day every day of the year, you would finish visiting all of them in about 20 years.

It's amazing how the Ships on the Great Lakes still manage to do their jobs, despite ice that is several feet thick at times, and chunks the size of cars.

A wild video shows an extremely choppy crossing of the Harsens Island Ferry during the Christmas Week Blizzard of 2022.

You won't believe which of Michigan's Great Lakes hasn't frozen over in nearly 50 years. Those beautiful fresh waters make natural ice sculptures of their own.