Echo
Commentary: Walking through change
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Going back home is so much more than reuniting with my family – it’s reuniting with the environment I grew up in.
Great Lakes Echo (https://greatlakesecho.org/tag/recreation/)
Going back home is so much more than reuniting with my family – it’s reuniting with the environment I grew up in.
The lifeguard shortage is expected to continue this summer, leading many local recreation leaders to combat inadequate staffing with increased wages or other incentives.
After a two-year hiatus, Great Lakes cruise ships are back, and the industry is trying to prepare itself. Cruise companies will start expeditions in May and end them in October.
Some trails break out of the woods at a lake. Some climb a dune to a sweeping view. And many – more than you probably thought – lead to a shipwreck with a story on a beach.
The northwest part of Michigan’s lower peninsula has already warmed two degrees Celsius since pre-industrial times, double that in most of the rest of the country, according to an analysis of federal temperature data dating back to 1895.
The Minong Ridge trail on Isle Royale is “arguably the hardest hike in Michigan.”
Whales in the Great Lakes? Not quite. But Great Lakes water is hugely influential on whales, justifying a nod to Quebec to round out our list of Great Lakes-related great natural features.
A treacherous hike along the rocky shoreline leads to sacred pictographs at Superior Provincial Park in Ontario.
New York’s Panama Rocks is the Jurassic Park of the Great Lakes basin. Visitors can hike, climb and explore the area’s ancient caves.
Pennsylvania claims a small piece of Great Lake’s shoreline but makes the most of it with a picturesque and primitive shoreline park.