Big water
The total combined area of the Great Lakes is 94,250 square miles.
How to get there
Via the gateway cities of Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Toronto, Buffalo, N.Y., and Thunder Bay, Ontario
How to remember them
Super Heroes Must Eat Oats is the mnemonic for Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, and Ontario.
“Before there were roads, even before there were trains, the easiest way to get people and products here was by water.”
Required reading
The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas by Jerry Dennis (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2004)
