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The only reason they call The Great Lakes, lakes instead of inland seas is because is that they are fresh water instead of salt water.
That and the elevation. The great lakes are like 500ft+ above sea level.
Yes Andre, you are off on thinking that skating on frozen lakes is dangerous. Growing up in Minnesota we used to skate on lakes, run snowmobiles on lakes, and drive cars out on lakes. We used to cut holes in the ice and fish in the wintertime. The ice is often 18 inches thick, and easily supports a car. You have to be judicious and realize when warmer weather is thinning the ice, and then you don't go out there any longer. You should watch a video about ice fishing. Minnesota has just under 12000 lakes larger than 10 acres, but in typical Minnesota modest fashion we call ourselves "The Land of 10,000 Lakes".
Same in North Dakota. Sometimes farmers drove tractors with blades on over the river to scrape away tree branches sticking up through the ice. Didn't have that problem on the lakes.
Michigan has more 😉
@stevenburkhardt1963 no, they don't.
Alaska has more though. Broke my heart when I moved from Mn to Ak and discovered that truth. Lol
Same but on little Lake Erie. We played on or in the Lake all year.
The 5 Great Lakes by themselves hold over 1/5 of all the fresh water in the entire world.
The Great Lakes includes a handful of slightly smaller lakes that don't get recognized often. Altogether it's a huge watershed.
Of course, Lake Baikal has more water than that all by itself.
@@huverdoose Baikal is the 7th largest lake in the world.
@@michaeldowson6988 By area, yes. But it's number one by volume (freshwater). It has slightly more water than the Great Lake system.
Having been a Great Lakes researcher, a few technicalities. We often specify them as the Laurentian Great Lakes (after their drainage into the St. Lawrence River), since other large lakes have been called Great, such as the African Great Lakes comprising Lakes Victoria, Tanganyika and Malawi. The Laurentian Great Lakes contain about 1/5 of the world's SURFACE fresh water, with a much more massive amount of fresh water worldwide being underground. As for it being a huge watershed, yes, it ranks up there in the world, but what makes it very unusual is that the ratio of land area to water area is about 2:1, far smaller than any other major watershed in the world.
The really amazing thing about Native American History is that it is an oral history. They passed on their history for over 6000 years.
Natives have had a presence on the continent for the last 22,000 years. So likely longer than 6,000.
Many-thousands of years longer than that.
Sadly, 98+% of it was eradicated during the 'Manifest Destiny' agenda of the Colonists, and then early American Govt..
A few tribes had writing systems
To follow this up, please check out “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” by Gordon Lightfoot.
I was actually thinking about that song for him to listen to.
"The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy"
As someone who has lived in Michigan essentially their entire life, on a human scale they are basically fresh water oceans. They have big waves, gorgeous beaches, large port cities (notably Chicago), and you cannot see across to the other side. They are arguably the best part of living in this state, and I highly recommend visiting some of the beaches along the Eastern coast of Lake Michigan if you ever get the chance!
Another thing I will say is that a lot of other Americans may not realize the true scale of these lakes. My sister (who now lives in New York), has told me that her coworkers who had only ever lived in New York their entire lives didn't believe her at first when she told them that she would frequently go to the beaches on Lake Michigan. They responded something along the lines of "Yeah, but those aren't REAL beaches." She informed them that they are, in fact, REAL beaches.
To give further context to your own country, Superior is a little bit smaller than Portugal(about 35,580 sq.mi) and altogether, at 94,250 sq.mi), the Great Lakes are about two and half times the size of Portugal.
Or almost 1/10th the size of the entire MEDITERRANEAN SEA.
The Great Salt Lake has two colors because a mostly impervious railroad causeway across the lake has kept the water of the whole lake from mixing freely. Salinity is different on the two sides of the causeway, which means the plant and animal life also is different.
Alaskan here, in winter, in Fairbanks Alaska, we use the river as an alternate road. spring isnt official until the first truck or snowmachine goes through the thinning ice.
As I recall, it was always a contest to be the first across the Pike's Landing ice bridge in the Fall. Come Springtime, the test was to be the last one to successfully cross. There was always someone who got to be the last one half-way across...
@@avatar997
there was also that aspect...
as a poor person, i never risked my explorer by driving on the ice, fools and younger kids, and those wanting shortcut to liquor store was the norm lol.
Lake Superior is the size of Portugal basically, minus like 3000 sq miles. Granted it's shared with Canada. It's an El Nino year the freezing wasn't so harsh yet it still snows in April up here. Lake Michigan is entirely in the U.S.
Oh wow
@@european-reacts I live next to both Lake Superior and Michigan. If you consider Michigan-Huron as one lake (which depending on definition it is). It is bigger than Portugal, 117,300 vs 92,230 sq km or about 1.25x as big.
I live in Michigan so I have been to all the Great Lakes and they are so so so beautiful! Lake Michigan is my favorite but they are all incredible. One of the fantastic things about living in Michigan.❤
My brother lived in northern Michigan near Lake Superior. A beautiful area with fantastic forests. When visiting there, it was so astonishing to see a lake that looked like an ocean. Traveled there by car from PA with my mother and dog (19 hrs non-stop, oh my, but lodging accepting large dogs was not to be had) so got to see a lot. Lake Michigan is beautiful, too.
And humidity, mosquitoes, deer fly, ticks, black fly, horse flies. Those are things that I do not miss with living in Colorado. I grew up in Lowell
The North Country Trail starts in Pennsylvania, goes through Ohio, up Michigan LP and across the UP, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and ends in ND. I’ve hiked a bit of it in Michigan
@@stevenburkhardt1963 plus….Colorado. I mean one of the most beautiful of all states!
We lived on a lake in Michigan, US. In the winter my dad used his yard tractor to clear the snow and we skated and played hockey right off our back yard. It was so fun, and the ice could easily support a car after enough days of cold. You used to be able to drive on the Great Lakes, but it's getting warmer and it's not as safe as it used to be. The Great Lakes have thousands of miles of beaches, but can be very dangerous with rip tides and hundreds of ships on the bottom slapped down like mosquitoes by the waves. But if you were born in Michigan, the Lakes call you back all your life. They get in your blood...
I grew up near Chicago, and that was pretty much my experience as well. Early in the season, we would use snow shovels to clear the ice. But once it got thick enough, our neighbor would plow it with his truck.
Can confirm. The Lakes get a hold on you like nothing else and no matter where you roam they always call you back.
SE MI we don't get to play pond hockey anymore. I played into my 40s (arthritis) but the ponds don't hard freeze anymore
@@michiwonderoutdoors2282 I don't think the ponds here (SW MI) froze once this past winter.
School children are taught to remember the names of the Great Lakes by HOMES, which stands for Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior.
I didn't know that! Probably because I'm in Florida, lol
@@DeeDeex2 I didn't either and I'm in NY! I'm on the eastern side but in about 5 hours I can get to Erie or Ontario. I always forget Huron, too. Not anymore. Thanks @janetschmitt
I didn't know that, and I grew up in Michigan. But we were expected to know about them no matter what.
Really??? I learned SHO ME. As in "The SHO ME State".
@@pauladuncanadams1750 I was taught that Missouri is the Show Me state.
Oregon IS beautiful! I live here and it never ceases to amaze me the diversity of landscapes here. I have bicycled around Crater Lake twice and it is SO cool.
I've lived in Oregon for 40 years, and it really is a beautiful place.
Crater Lake bottled water that they sell up there saved my life (literally) the base nature of the water I kept drinking the bottles I had purchased there when I was driving back to S. Texas. Unbeknownst to myself I had been going acidotic while visiting..the water kept it at bay until I was back home and collapsed. Took several photos of that beautiful lake too
The Great Lakes are so big that it's like you're looking at the ocean (can't see land across them) but they are fresh water. They're huge enough to create 'waves' like an ocean.
Dangerous waves, there have been hundreds of ship wrecks in Lake Superior
@@willjapheth23789 Yeah, it really acts like the sea. I was so surprised the first time stuck my legs in it and they weren't salty.
It also has tides.
I live on the north shore of Lake Superior and while the tides aren't huge, they are noticeable.
Here in Wisconsin we routinely drive our Ford F150 trucks weight of 4,700 pounds (2,100kg) minimum, on lakes without any worry of breaking through the nearly 2 feet (61 cm) of ice.
Pond hockey as kids !
@@DashRiprock513I always loved it when one particular field on the farm I grew up on would freeze over, through melt and then re-freeze, so I could skate on as a child, at least a much as a Wisconsin farm boy was allowed back in the seventies. Work before play, always, unfortunately! This is where the American work ethic is going away. My “City slicker” cousins used to spend a week or two,at least, on the farm our family our that still farmed, learning what real “work” was, even though they never were truly being coddled into thinking this is what real farming was. The world have never lasted a full week of my Dad if he would have gone hardcore on them, as he did with me and my brothers.
@@andrewwirch7227pickin rocks...ugh
Chicago's beaches are on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan. It is fantastic for swimming and sport fishing, and is about 300 miles long. Every year there is an overnight yacht race from Chicago to northern Michigan. The Great lakes are not in the south. They are in the upper Midwest. None of Lake Michigan has a shoreline with Canada. A lot of kids skate on frozen rivers here, not lakes much.
My sister lives near Lake Superior and takes me there when I visit. The lake itself is beautiful and is surrounded by a lovely wooded area where we go to see a breathtaking view of an old light house on the edge of a small hill near the shore. Of course, as Lewis said, we cannot see the other side of the lake in any direction because it truly is larger than Scotland. This lake is large enough to be shared by Canada and the US.
Split Rock Light House by chance? North of Duluth?
@@ericgrondahl8330 Yes!! I have lived in beautiful mountains for many years but I am still thrilled every time I go to Duluth to see that magnificent lake with the light house full of mystery. I am now 80 years old and probably won't be back again but you gave me a few moments of excitement with your response. Thank you.
@VirginiaPeden-Harrington-qd5zu by its description it had to be Split Rock! Glad you've enjoyed it over the years
I am watching this from Northern Wisconsin in a city called Merrill. Within 2 hours or less I can drive and see Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. Lake Superior is very cold even in summer. It is just above freezing around 32 degrees Fahrenheit. It's beauty is beyond compare. Peaceful but I wouldn't like to be on a ship in November. Freezing rain in hurricane strength winds from time to time. A famous ship the EdmondFritzgerald sink in 1975 in November traversing the lake in freezing rain with hurricane strength winds. The song by Gordon Lightfoot is about its sinking.
Lake Tahoe is in the mountains and is in both California and Nevada and is (in my opinion) the most beautiful lake in the US.
Okay, now you need to react to The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, by Gordon Lightfoot. I saw him in concert back in the seventies. His voice and his ability to tell stories through songs is amazing. He wrote this song about a shipwreck on Lake Superior.
2:58 I am in Northeastern Minnesota on the Iron Range - not far from the state's record holder for cold air temperature of -60°F. In a normal Minnesota winter, there's definitely enough cold temps to make the ice on the INLAND lakes safe to drive on - lots of people put small portable buildings (Ice Houses) out on the ice for a good portion of the winter. This year, it's been unusually warm & there's been very little snow, so the lakes weren't as safe to be on. Lots of people going through the ice on some lakes because the ice wasn't thick enough.
Lake Superior itself doesn't usually freeze completely even in really cold winters. Some people do venture out on the harbor ice, but it's hazardous if the wind changes direction & pushes the ice sheet away from shore. I live an hour away from Lake Superior - my town is 55 miles north of Duluth & the North Shore is about an hour away to my east too. Lake Superior actually creates it's own weather patterns. 7:19 Yes, you did understand that Lake Superior is huge. It's so huge that the water stays pretty cold - even in the summer. We can be warm in the higher elevation on the hill & its much cooler by the time you get down the hill to the shore level. You definitely need to bring a hoodie or light jacket if you are going down by the Lake! It can also be warmer by the shore in winter since the open water is warmer than the air. Because it doesn't freeze completely in winter, it can create Lake Effect Snow as the cold air passes over the warmer water. This weather phenomenon happens on the other Great Lakes too when it's not frozen. That's why some places like the Upper Peninsula of Michigan & Buffalo New York get so much snow every year. I'm far enough away from Lake Superior to miss the huge lake effect snow dumps, but it still affects the weather 60 miles away too.
I just moved to the state Washington after living about 45 years in Oregon. You say Oregon must be one of the most beautiful states, and I would have to agree. After many day hikes, backpacking trips, canoe trips, and a few fishing trips, I’ve seen so much incredible beauty in the wilderness areas of Oregon, that when I finally made it to Crater Lake only about eight years ago, I was not as impressed as almost anyone would be. If you’ve backpacked into the Three Sisters Wilderness, the Opal Creek Wilderness, Mount Jefferson Wilderness; driven along the Rogue River; hiked into the Columbia River Gorge photographing waterfalls; checked out the Painted Hills; or fished from a canoe in Upper Klamath Lake, you have been so awed for so long over so many years that the beauty of Crater Lake is no longer remarkable. It’s just Oregon.
I'm in Mill City, Oregon. Opal Creek and Jefferson Wilderness areas are basically my backyard. You're absolutely correct that it is incredibly beautiful. An outdoor paradise. ❤
@7:00 "..I'm starting to think Lake and Loch have some connection...."
Loch is the Gaelic word for Lake. Often, the Irish Gaelic-origin variant ends up Anglicized as 'lough' and the Scottish Gaelic-origin is 'loch'.
Random bit of information: Georgia has no natural lakes. All the lakes are dammed up rivers. But Florida has 30,000 lakes, some with alligators. And many of them are leftover sinkholes. (You might want to look at a sinkhole video - they're terrifying). Yes, our big lakes are crazy big, but even the medium sized ones make up a large portion of some states or regions. More water than land.
There's even an area called The Chain of Lakes for how numerous they are (and the fact that all connect- or... used to connect).
@@prycenewberg3976 The Winter Park Chain of Lakes Boat Tour is a must for visitors to see "old Florida," not the theme park version.
I have been to Crater Lake and it is stunning! There's a very nice Visitor Center that tells about the lake's formation and volcanic area that created the lake (the National Park Service always does an absolutely fantastic job at all the parks in explaining the geology, history, and cultures that once thrived in the area that is now in the Park). At the right time of year, you can take a boat around the lake that offers breathtaking views. But even better than visiting the lake itself, is traveling the road up the mountain to get there! There are so many geological formations left by volcanic activity that is mind-boggling to see. If you go, leave lots of time for getting up and down the mountain so you can see as much as possible.
I've lived in Michigan my entire life. It is a beautiful state, full of forests and lakes, even a few small mountains. I used to live walking distance from Lake Michigan, and could hear the waves from my house on windy days. The great lakes get in your blood.
I must add, on the rare days when conditions are just right, I could see the skyline of Chicago from the bluffs of my city on the coast of Lake Michigan. Something about reflections and curvatures or something, but its super cool when you catch sight of it.
Depending on where exactly you are, it's likely a mirage (in the technical sense - light bent by heat making something appear where it isn't). Light does weird shit when there are significant heat differences between layers of atmosphere, and it can make you see things that are actually hidden by the earth's curvature.
Listen to the Gordon Lightfoot song, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald which explains how massive the Lakes are. They are so big they make their own weather. Many captains that sail the oceans are leery about sailing on the Great Lakes since winds come from more than one direction making them very dangerous in a storm. Moreover, as a Michigan native, I was totally disappointed the first time I saw the ocean - it looked like I was looking at one of the Great Lakes.
"The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead When the skies of November turn gloomy" That's an absolutely haunting song.
@@rtyriafor real. I heard it for the first time a few years ago. I love the song but cant help but cry. “Fella’s it was good to know ya.” Then the bell and the families. Wild but heartbreaking story.
@@ravenm6443 For the first 7 years or so of my life my family would bring the Edmund Fitzgerald up on my birthday and reminisce about that shipwreck. I was born the year it sank. It has cast a very long shadow that has followed me everywhere.
@@rtyria I don’t even know how I’d process that! While the story of the Edmond Fitzgerald is worth remembering and discussing, I think I’d be a bit peeved if my parents chose a tragedy to talk about on my birthday, even if it coincided with my birthday. It be like talking about the Titanic or some tragic flight. Any other day than my birthday. But that’s just how I’d feel about it.
@@ravenm6443 I don't think they realized I was listening.
Loch means lake and Nessie came from Loch Ness or Ness lake in Scotland
I grew up during the 1950-60's and every winter we would for sure ice skate on frozen lakes in the area. The vast majority of the time they were solidly frozen and perfectly safe.
Sierra Nevada is a mountain range. It is not the State of Nevada, although a portion of the mountain range doesclie in the State of Nevada. The vast majority of the range resides in California.
The ice on the US - Canada border, the ice can be 18 inches thick. I've seen skidders and excavators on ice of that thickness.
As a guy that lives in the state of Michigan i can add that to honest no matter how long you live near the great lakes the awe never wears off Andre.
I live in Michigan where 4 of the great lakes are located. It's a beautiful sight, especially lake superior. Very beautiful.
+ it's true that you can't see straight across them to the other side
Hell, you can be out sailing on them and not see land in any direction.
You make it sound like Canada doesn't exist. The province of Ontario shares 4 of the Great Lakes too, Erie, Superior, Huron and Ontario.
@@susieq9801 literally a video talking about the United states its lakes. Get outta here canada.
@@Loganody - Precisely what is so annoying. The Great Lakes are not solely in "America". The US is not "America" all by itself. So many videos are about the US as if no one else exists and few "Americans" even acknowledge or know about their neighbours north or south or the rest of the planet in general. That is arrogance. Remember that we should "get outta here" at such times as when we sheltered your grounded citizens during 9/11, fought with you in WW2, WW1 (when you finally showed up), Afghanistan and other conflicts, assisted you during storms, fires and other calamities (you're welcome) as you have done for us (thank you). We share a continent and help each other. No need to be rude.
@@susieq9801 I said United States not america.. you are making an argument out of thin air. I'm not reading your paragraph rant about something that has nothing to do with what I've said
Living on the Canadian side of Lake Ontario (Toronto) I think, like many in the world who live with awe inspiring geography, natural history etc., we take the wonder of what we have for granted until someone (thank-you for the video) reminds us of what we truly live with. The Great Lakes are spectacular, huge and inspiring and a treasure that needs to be protected. For example Lake Superior, one lake with shared management between the USA and Canada (the other three along the border are also jointed managed) contains 10% of the worlds fresh water. That is huge! As well, definitely not part of the great lake system, Great Bear Lake, Great Slave Lake are both larger than Lake Erie and Lake Winnipeg is larger than lake Ontario (the smallest of the Great Lakes). In short Canada is blessed with fresh water.
The chain of lakes and rivers from the Arctic Ocean including Great Bear, Great Slave, Winnipeg, Athabasca, Manitoba, St Clair, the Great Lakes, Detroit, Niagara and St Lawrence rivers and many smaller links once formed a great inland sea that divided North America into two continents.
Lake Tahoe is on the California/Nevada border, right at the bend. It is very pretty, and very cold.
I spent a year living in Olympic Valley. One of my roommates had a boat docked in Homewood, and we used to chase the sunset across Lake Tahoe. It's so beautiful. Having grown up in Michigan at the base of Lake Huron, I'm used to big water, but Tahoe is a different world.
I once took a ferry ride with family as a child on Lake Michigan. From Wisconsin to Michigan, it took six hours to cross, and the ferry had state rooms away from the cars parked for the crossing. Keep up the good videos.
The US Canada border runs through 4 of the 5 Great Lakes with the 5th lake (Lake Michigan) being fully within the US
I'm on Lake Ontario, it's big. It's the smallest of the Great Lakes, but still too big to see the other side, due to the curvature of the earth.
But the above ground lakes are nothing compared to what we have underground.
Look at the Ogallala Aquifer - covering about 450,000 km². That's from Texas to South Dakota, including basically the entire state of Nebraska. There's more fresh water in that than all the great lakes combined, and is slightly larger than the Black Sea.
i love Lawrence's videos.
He has heart and soul as well as facts and pictures.
As an American I appreciate that he appreciates America!
You really need to visit Oregon some day..... it really has it all, in regards to climates and stunning landscapes..... I live in Bend, OR, at the base of Mt Bachelor and the Cascade Range. We are just about right in the center of the state, and considered the "high" desert... a lot of old volcanic landscape with several varieties of pine trees and juniper trees, as well as a lot of sage brush. We have a lot of lakes within a short drive from town, and only a 1-1/2 hour drive north of Crater Lake. Beautiful area to live, especially if you are an outdoor enthusiast.......
I live in Oregon. Crater Lake is very beautiful and very remote with lots of tourists.
The coastline and the temperate rain forest near the coast are my favorite areas. Mt Hood & the Columbia river gorge are awesome also.
I live near Lake Tahoe in Northern Nevada... Its beautiful in the mountains... Lake Tahoe is so big you can't see from one side to the other... It takes about 4hrs to drive around the lake...And that is without stopping...lol
Native oregonian here, I've been to crater lake, it is definitely awe inspiring
Yes, we skate on lakes. The ice gets really thick, if it's a cold winter. We also ice fish. You can't see the other side of the Great Lakes, in most places.
People actually drive their vehicles onto frozen lakes for recreation and to go ice fishing. The ice can get pretty thick. You can see this in the movie Grumpy Old Men.
Alaskan here--obviously, the lakes freeze pretty hard up here. Even the ocean freezes over in some locations. When we lived in Nome, we would take snowmachines out on the frozen Norton Sound in the winter to go crab fishing.
Tennessee isn't known for lakes but we do have caves, the most in the world
Andre, I was born in Klamath Falls...I swam in Klamath Lake and took day trips to Crater Lake for picnics. It's some of the most beautiful lakes in the US.
Ice fishing is awesome! I don't live on a lake but there are plenty around. First thing I do when I roll into a lake town is find the bait shop and talk to the person there. They'll know how thick the ice is. And of course always buy bait from the local shop and give them your money instead of some franchise store. Snowmobiles, (or snow machines, depending on where you are), 4-wheelers, trucks, tents, (shanties), barbecues - bring it all out there. HELL YEAH!!
Also I am now in Northern California. Tahoe is an amazing clear deep lake we go to often. Up in the mountains and absolutely beautiful.
Thank you, Andre! I enjoyed sharing a little part of my Saturday night with you (and Laurence!). ❤
Wisconsinite here. So yeah by big lakes. The size of them is something to behold
Come to Seattle and I'll take you to Mt Rainier, Mt St Helens, Mt Adams and tell you aaaaaalll about the volcanoes! Pacific NW geology is stunning. We'll also do all the Seattle stuff, too. Crater Lake is 10ish hours from us, but it's pretty accessible.
The North Cascades have a unique geology all their own, and very different from the rest of the Cascades.
@@kristend344 yes thank you. Am geologist.
I live in Minnesota of which Lake Superior has a coastline. To us it's like an ocean it's so big! The most beautiful place in Minnesota (in my opinion) is northeastern Minnesota, all along the north shore of Lake Superior. Gorgeous waterfalls!
The Great Salt Lake is 2 colors due to the salt amount on each side. One half is around 15% salt and the other half is 25-30% salt causing the lake to appear 2 colors. But if you see it up close depending on the time of day and side of the lake you are on, it will look pinkish. The Morton Salt factory gets there salt from the Great Salt Lake
Grew up on Lake Superior and now live on Lake Michigan. Some of the biggest cities in the US and Canada are on the shores of the Great Lakes.
HI Andre. I'm from Michigan. I grew up close to the Detroit River and Lake Erie. I currently have a vacation home a short walk from Lake Michigan beaches. Almost the entire west cost of Michigan along Lake Michigan is sand dunes.
i live in Michigan,...i have been to 4 of 5 Great Lakes.
Don't live in Michigan but I've also been to 4. All but Ontario
Hello from Michigan!
My cousins and I skated and played hockey on Lake Huron every winter as children.
We stayed away from the cracks and always remembered which light was our grandparents house at night. Thats because the smooth ice was usually about a mile off shore!
Good times!
Love your channel😊
Having been to every state, I agree that Oregon is up there as one of the most beautiful states ❤
I used to live on the shore of Lake Champlain in Vermont. At one point, it was considered a great lake.
@@ScribbleScrabblessLake Champlain is beautiful!
Lake Tahoe is one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.
And there is fantastic skiing in that area. Kirkwood is my favorite. Heavenly ski resort has a lovely view of the lake from its slopes but is almost always very crowded.
Watching from Utah - Great Salt Lake is near. It's very large surface wise, but comparatively shallow all over. It's what's left of the ancient Lake Bonneville, which filled up the eastern side of the great basin. The different colors of the lake are due to dikes built to cordon off fresh water from rivers away from the salt. So naturally the lake would saline, but not all the lake is any longer. The Farmington Bay Area is a major bird stop off on the migrations. A birders paradise.
As someone with a home on the shore of Lake Tahoe, I can tell you that it sits between California and Nevada and is a true Alpine lake. You can see the bottom of the lake over 100 feet out and the water is crystal blue and FREEZING COLD all the time. It is one of the most beautiful places you will ever visit, no matter the season.
I loved skating on the lake when i was kid! The fire dept used to let the community know when it was frozen enough for recreation
Yes, most of Nevada *is* desert.... Caused by high mountain ranges to their West in California that squeeze out most of the moisture flowing from the Pacific Ocean as the winds rise over them... However, a small bit of Western Nevada in the central portion of the state extends a short distance into the biggest of these mountain ranges, the Sierra Nevada. And sliced in half by the California - Nevada border is Lake Tahoe, a large alpine lake at 6225 fee above sea level.
I was born and raised in Oregon and I always get a warm fuzzy feeling when people compliment my beautiful state. I hope you get to experience it for yourself someday soon!
Wisconsinite here. I live in a suburb in the metro area of Milwaukee and I live about 30 minutes driving distance
away from Lake Michigan. I've only walked on the beach of Lake Michigan when my dad and I visited
my uncle in Michigan though. My uncle used to own a cottage there. I mostly remember the smell of dead fish
while walking on the beach but it's a beautiful lake. I've seen it many times while I drove in Milwaukee.
As an Oregonian I love hearing the positive talks around it! Hope you get to visit one day, it’s more beautiful than pictures can make it look
He's half right. I live about 4.5 hours away from South Lake Tahoe, California. Lake Tahoe is beautiful and big and it is in both states of California and Nevada. In the Sierra Nevada Moutains range. The 1960 Winter Olympics was there at Squaw Valley, CA next to Lake Tahoe on the California side. You snow ski during winter there and water activities during summer there. It's great both seasons. Many people in CA know know how to snow ski and do many winter sports because we have many moutain ranges and get cold and snowed during winter. You noticed a lot of winter olympic athletes are from CA. CA has both, snow in the mountains and lakes and beaches for summer. Cost of living is through the roof.
FYI, Squaw Valley is now Palisades. It was renamed due to the racism in the word squaw. I know that you know, but others don't.
I live a few mile southwest of Crater Lake here in Oregon. Snow depth at times reaches as deep as 42 feet on average. I have noted it has been 3 times deeper. Crazy, huh?
Crator lake is crystal clear where you can see the bottom at its deepest depth. It is absolutely stunning.
Europe has a lake that's almost as large as Lake Ontario. You should know all about it, since it's in Russia ;-) (All of Europe's largest lakes are either north or east of the Baltic.)
I haven't ice skated on a frozen lake, but I've walked on them. It's dangerous if you do it too early in the fall or too late in spring, but in the dead of winter, the ice is multiple feet thick and people drive trucks on it to tow their ice-fishing huts into place.
"Loch" is the Scots Gaelic cognate for the English word "lake". So the thing "Loch Morrar" and "Loch Ness" have in common, is they are both lakes in Scotland. (Hmm. The one in Ireland that he mentioned, is probably the Irish Gaelic word. Irish Gaelic and Scots Gaelic are, as the names would suggest, related.)
I've lived in the Great Lakes region my whole life. I've seen all five of the lakes and have been out on two of them in boats. The one I've seen most often is Lake Erie, which sits directly north of Ohio, the state I've lived in for the longest amount of time. But I also once spent three nights and two days on an island in Lake Huron, namely, Manitoulin Island, which is large enough that we repeatedly spent hours in the car driving from place to place on the island. It's a really nice place to visit, incidentally.
Portugal apparently has the largest *artificial* lake in Western Europe. But the qualifier is important there: artificial lakes don't come in such large sizes as large as natural ones. Although an artificial lake the size of the Caspian or so, could be an interesting starting point for a science fiction story.
love skating on the lakes, it gets so damn cold in michigan that the ice gets plenty thick and is very safe
I live near Lake Okeechobee, in Florida. It is quite large and you cannot see the other side, but it is rather shallow, only 12 ft.., 730 sq miles.
I live three blocks from Lake Superior, it is indeed very big. Parts of the edges of it freeze in the winter, but it doesn't freeze well enough for people to walk on it.
You should listen and react to the song The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald, about a ship that sank in Lake Superior in 1975.
I am in Northern Minnesota, and lots of the other lakes around here freeze in the winter. People carefully test the ice thickness before going out. People routinely drive pickup trucks out on lakes, and drag ice fishing shacks (and even small temporary houses) out on the ice.
I live in Michigan and have seen all of the Great Lakes. They're basically inland seas. Their beauty is overwhelming.
Hey, what’s up from Northern Michigan. I love living here being surrounded by these freshwater lakes. If you ever do decide to visit this region, try taking a pictured rocks tour or travel to Mackinac Island. Both are a really fun boat ride.
I've lived in Oregon for 40 years, and it's really a beautiful state. I love in the Capitol city Salem. From here it's little more than an hour drive to the Pacific ocean or to the Cascade mountains. In less than an hour i can be a Silver Falls State Park, where about a 4 mile hike down into the canyon takes you on a hike along 7 beautiful waterfalls, including walking behind 2 of the falls! It is an incredibly beautiful hike, and probably my favorite place in the US.
Yes, i have been to Crater Lake. When my son was young i took him and one of his friends on a camping trip to that area, and we visited the lake. It was in June, but they still hadn't opened the road all the way around the lake because of the snow pack.
It weird when you see a Great Lake for the first time. Not seeing the other side is surreal.
I grew up 12 miles from Lake Michigan, and I'm still in awe of its size every time I see it.
I have been to Madison Wisconsin a lot, since I live within 25 miles of our capitol. There are five decent sized lakes and two of them, Mendota and Menona, are separated by a strip of land, geologically called an isthmus. And that is where the capital building is along with much of the university and several hospitals. It makes for interesting driving. Dad used to say, "If you aren't crazy before driving into Madison, you will be when you leave." And it has only gotten worse over the last 30 years since he was there.
Yet, my favorite memories of the city, besides the stores that used to be on the square around the capital building, is flying into Truax at night. The lakes were black and the isthmus bright with street lights, businesses, and vehicles. The topping on the experience was seeing our capital building lit up. It is much like the national Capital but is a stone dome instead of metal. It is beautiful in the building.
Unfortunately, in that edifice, our government officials totally forget about the regular follks.
I live in Michigan, very close to Lake Michigan. I grew up near Buffalo, NY on Lake Erie. Yes I used to skate on frozen pond, it wasn't very deep.
My grandparents had a cottage on Lake Huron, the second biggest freshwater lake in the world. It's like a mini ocean. The great thing about it is that you can swim in it without concerns about predators like sharks. o
Yes, I live in the city of Duluth Minnesota, which is right on lake.Superior it is a beautiful lake
I grew up in a small town along the Lake Michigan shore. I can tell you, it's big, beautiful, and totally has and of it's own. What feels like a warm spring day ten miles inland, will be chilly with ice chunks still present along the lake shore. You do bond with the lake. Visiting it at least once season gets to be customary and even if one moves away from Lake Michigan, not being near some sort of lake is indeed a emotional loss.
1,943 feet is over 600 meters deep, Andre!!
Loch is the Gaelic word for lake. Lake Tahoe is not in the state of Nevada but the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Northern part of California. It's not too far from Yosemite and near the border of California and Nevada.
I grew up right on Lake Superior, in Duluth, Minnesota. Lake Superior is more like a small ocean...it's absolutely massive.
I've been to Lake Tahoe...it is so beautiful!!! The color of the water is amazing, and the waterfall is dream worthy!!
I have often visited Lake Superior and you can’t see across it. Yes, we do walk , skate and drive cars and truck on the frozen lakes. We would often spin our cars on the ice for fun.
Hello from Duluth, Minnesota. The farthest inland, ocean-going port in the USA. We are located on the farthest western tip of Lake Superior. Minnesota is known as "The Land of 10,000 Lakes." (Even though we actually have closer to 11, 000 lakes in Minnesota).
You should do a video on Minnesota and our lakes!
I live 110 miles north of Crater Lake and have been there many times, it still amazes me visiting it.
I grew up basically a five minute drive from the shore of Lake Erie. My uncle's back yard backed right up to it. We would walk to the end of his back yard and down a few wooden steps placed into a sandy hill and voila! We were in the sand and the actual water of Lake Erie was a few dozen yards away. We all loved to ice skate but never skated on Lake Erie because it was so dangerous. Many people died over the years skating on the lake and so a park was created a few minutes from my uncle's house which had a huge outdoor skating rink. The kids all skated there every winter and this was a great way to keep kids from skating on the lake.
I have spent my life on the Great Lakes they are my home. They stole my heart when I was a very small child.
Crater Lake is stunning. Pain to get there, but amazing. Tahoe is much easier to get to (about two hours away from me), just off I-80 or US-50, in the Sierras.😊
Michigan here. We have a thing called Lake Life in the Great Lakes region. Our natural resources are deeply ingrained in our local culture
I grew up in Michigan, where it was common for the ice on the lakes to get up to a full meter thick. Not only did we skate on the lake, some people routinely drove their automobiles on it.
I spent most of my youth ice skating when I lived in Wisconsin, that trasfered over to roller skating down south. Not only did we ice skate on the lakes we went ice fishing which is where you drive your car out on the ice and cut out a circle of ice to fish in the water underneath.
FYI Loch Ness is Scotland not Britain.
I grew up in Wisconsin, Lake superior to the north, Lake Michigan to the east, I have been ice fishing on both of them.
I went with my Dad and my brothers one time only to go ice fishing on Lake St. Clair (which people in Michigan consider the baby Great Lake because it IS LARGE &you can’t see anything but water on the horizon) but my feet got too cold to go again. My dad even had an ice fishing tent and a stove on the ice. But we fished there a lot in the summer.
Yes when I was a kid growing up we always went ice skating on lakes all the time. A lot of the boys would play hockey on the lakes too.
i live 2 hours away from lake superior, the ice waves are crazy looking in the winter