Shipping in the Great Lakes first began about three hundred years ago with French fur trappers, followed by loggers, salt ...

Within half an hour the luxurious steamboat sank and took 300 lives with her, marking the deadliest shipwreck on the Great Lakes. Fewer than 20 people, mostly crew, made it into lifeboats.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota Duluth found the previously-undiscovered microorganisms hiding in the tar-like goo ...

He noted there are more than 2,000 historical shipwrecks on Lake Erie alone. "We could look every year for 100 years and not find all of the shipwrecks on the Great Lakes," he said.

The vessel was the largest on the Great Lakes at the time. The crew of 29 died when the freighter sank during a storm on Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975.

Lake Mendota had not been on the archaeologist’s radar, and she certainly wasn’t hunting for dugout canoes. Thomsen usually looks for shipwrecks, like 19th-century freighters.

Spacious suites, full kitchens, and a water park make this affordable Orlando resort a hit with families visiting Disney, ...

Summer is here, and cottage season is in full swing. From May to October in Canada, cottages, cabins and chalets across the ...

That’s the Marblehead Lighthouse in a nutshell – a gleaming white sentinel on Lake Erie’s shore that somehow remains Ohio’s best maritime treasure hiding in plain sight. Standing tall since 1821, this ...

This 338-acre slice of paradise sits on Whitefish Bay, where Lake Superior shows off its best impression of an ocean, minus the sharks, jellyfish, and that sticky salt residue that turns beach hair ...

Lowdown: Located on an isthmus between Lake Michigan, Round Lake, and Lake Charlevoix, bisected by the Pine River along U.S.