Category Destinations

New York’s Finger Lakes are well-known tourist destinations, and their wines have gained international recognition. But how many Lakelubbers have heard of New York’s Concord Grape Belt and the Chautauqua-Lake…

Mono Lake, located in California’s Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains, resembles an alien world created by Hollywood movie makers. The lake is famous for its graceful tufa towers (calcium carbonate deposits)…

Residents of seven Western states – Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming – depend on the Colorado River for survival. The river is the life-sustaining force for…

The district nestled in and around the picturesque, 664,000-acre Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest of Wisconsin is home to one of the highest densities of lakes in North America. With 28 lakes,…

The Maine Highlands of northwest Maine are home to Moosehead Lake. This glacial lake is the largest in Maine, covering almost 75,000 acres with 400 miles of shoreline. More than…

The Great Lakes thrill us with their beauty and inspire us with their magnitude. In 1988, the Great Lakes Commission approved a Great Lakes Circle Tour to create a scenic, international road…

Lake Union was the setting for Tom Hanks’ floating home in the 1993 box office hit “Sleepless in Seattle.” This floating home is a popular stop on boat tours around…

Measuring just two acres in surface area, tiny Lake Waiau is one of the highest elevated lakes on the planet. Located at 13,020 feet above sea level on the Big…

Ontario’s Rideau Canal Waterway stretches 125 miles through a series of lakes and rivers connected by canals. Boaters can cruise this scenic waterway from the city of Kingston, where the…