[jihadjihad]

If you haven't visited the Great Lakes, it can be hard to fathom how vast they are. They are really more like inland seas than lakes. At its deepest point, Lake Superior is about 1300ft deep, and edge-to-edge it measures about 350 miles across. If Lake Superior were drained, it could cover the entirety of North and South America with a foot of freshwater.

The northwestern coast of Michigan and the Upper Peninsula that bounds Lake Superior is absolutely worth a trip if you haven't been there.

[EvanAnderson]

If you’re able to time a visit to the locks in Sault Ste., MI for the last Friday in June you can take a tour that allows you to walk out onto the locks and get up close with the freighters. There are usually some other special tours around town for this “Engineer’s Day” event.

Our visit one year happened to fall on that day and it was an unexpected treat.

[h00k]

I went through them for the first time last year, without ever having seen them. I think I'd be equally excited either way. Working, I didn't get to appreciate them from the other angle, I assume equally as neat.

[RajT88]

The most wild thing about the great lakes for me, is that there's enormous islands in the middle which you can visit.

Beaver Island has an entire year-round community. Farms, wineries, a small airport. It was featured on some survival show I caught late at night once.

The Manitou islands used to be inhabited. They have found arrowheads on the island 7000 years old. They went through a logging colony, to a farming colony, to them mostly just a collection of summer cottages, before the state finally bought them and made them a wild camping nature preserve. 5 miles offshore, and within sight of other massive islands which have their own wild histories.

Lastly - South Manitou island has a shipwreck from the 60's along its shore you can still explore and dive.

Mackinac island is another year-round community. No cars are allowed, and the historical forts from the 1800's have been all preserved. It's the only place I've visited which has a real, "Pirates of the Caribbean" feel to it.

Put-in-Bay, where fishermen go to party. There's a lot of these places!

[shagie]

> The most wild thing about the great lakes for me, is that there's enormous islands in the middle which you can visit.

On the largest island, in the largest lake in the world, there are multiple lakes. The largest of the lakes has multiple islands.

It is possible to go camping on the largest island in the largest lake in the largest island in the largest lake int he world.

https://www.google.com/maps/@48.0097822,-88.7714891,461m/dat...

Note that there is no lake on Ryan Island and the Moose Boulder doesn't exist. https://www.npr.org/2020/03/13/815546895/the-lonely-non-isla...

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Mackinac island is known for its rock skipping tournament. ... and the former Vice President had an eight car motorcade there. https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-pence-car-free-mackinac...

[jihadjihad]

A fun read on the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_islands_and_lakes