Great Lakes

Five lakes, 10,000 miles of shoreline — the world's largest freshwater boating playground.

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Lake Superior

The largest, deepest, coldest Great Lake — big-water cruising for the committed.

Lake Michigan

Chicago to the Straits of Mackinac — a coastline of cities, dunes, and islands.

Lake Huron

Home of the North Channel and Georgian Bay — some of the finest cruising grounds on earth.

Lake Erie

The warmest, shallowest, fishiest Great Lake.

Lake St. Clair

Shallow, protected, ringed by marinas — Metro Detroit's boating front yard.

Lake Ontario

The smallest by surface, but home to the 1000 Islands and Toronto's harbors.

The Great Lakes hold 20 percent of the world's fresh surface water and a coastline longer than the entire US Atlantic seaboard. From the Apostle Islands to the 1000 Islands, cruisers have been plying these waters for two centuries. Puddle covers the full basin — Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, St. Clair, and Ontario — with marina, fuel dock, and POI data curated by locals and maintained by the owners themselves.