The Adirondack Mountains in Upstate New York are blanketed with six million acres of forestland surrounding rocky mountain ...

ALPENA, MI – This Northern Michigan harbor town is expected to welcome the largest cruise ships on the Great Lakes 19 times ...

Instead of just stopping in the city overnight, the four vessels will be in for six days in what might be their only ...

MADISON, Wis. — Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail on the Great Lakes. The Western Reserve was one of the ...

As the ship entered Lake Superior’s Whitefish Bay between Michigan and Canada on Aug. 30, a gale came up. With no cargo, the ship was floating high in the water. The storm battered it until it ...

However, as the ship entered Lake Superior's Shipwreck Coast, conditions deteriorated rapidly. On the evening of August 30, 1892, a powerful gale struck the Western Reserve. Around 9 p.m., the ...

Any ship traveling to or from the big lake, heading for the Soo Locks, had to pass this stretch. And with the lake’s fetch stretching hundreds of miles, there is little to slow the waves.

This image provided by Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society shows the Western Reserve, a merchant ship that sank in Lake Superior in 1892 off Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. (Great Lakes ...