The Lake
Winter 2024-25 Ice Outlook
The North American Ice Service released its seasonal outlook just before Christmas.
Dec 26, 2024
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2024 Achievement Award Winner: Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission
Since 1994, Lake Superior Magazine has given out its annual Achievement Award to individuals and groups who have contributed significantly to Lake Superior and its peoples. This year we honor the St. Louis River Alliance for its partnerships, …
Oct 24, 2024
DOROTHY JAMISON
Rescuing the Rescue Boat
This rescue begins with a dream. Three friends, all sailors, had visions of creating a shipwreck museum in Eagle Harbor, Michigan. Mark Rowe is a shipwreck diver, Dave Thomas, a retired U.S. Coast Guard master chief, and the late George Hite was
Sep 12, 2024
Photo from the C. Patrick Labadie Collection
Maritime, The Day Lake Superior Gave Up Her Dead
“The Lake, it is said, never gives up her dead …” – “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” by Gordon Lightfoot The Jones family of Cornucopia, Wisconsin, was well known as both boatbuilders and commercial fishermen on Lake Superior. Thomas Senior and
Apr 18, 2024
2023 Achievement Award Winner: St. Louis River Alliance
Since 1994, Lake Superior Magazine has given out its annual Achievement Award to individuals and groups who have contributed significantly to Lake Superior and its peoples. This year we honor the St. Louis River Alliance for its partnerships, …
Nov 1, 2023
BRIAN PETERSON / ©2017 STAR TRIBUNE
2022 Achievement Award Winner: Bonnie Dahl
Smooth Sailing Bonnie Dahl Paved the Waves on Lake Superior
Jul 21, 2023
Dr. Daniel Rust
May 25, 2023
Jayson Hron / Duluth Seaway Port Authority
Maritime Day 2023 Celebration
Special event includes national honoring of local UWS professor emeritsu
May 25, 2023
Lake Superior Caribou
A brief history of the Ontario shore caribou and their status as of 2022
Apr 7, 2022
USCG cutter Spar Arrives to Its New Home Port
The 225-foot Juniper class buoy tender comes 'home' for the first time.
Mar 31, 2022
JEFF RENNICKE
Achievement Award 2021: Friends in All the Right Places
Lake Superior Magazine has given out its annual Achievement Award since 1994 to individuals and groups who have contributed significantly to the well being of Lake Superior and its peoples. The Friends of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore provi
Nov 9, 2021
Adieu Alder
After 16 years, the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Alder will leave Duluth for eventual posting in San Francisco.
Jun 18, 2021
COURTESY SUPERIOR WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP
Achievement Award 2020: The Practical Partner, SWP Delivers the Solutions
Each year since 1994, Lake Superior Magazine has chosen an organization or individual to honor for making a significant contribution to the well-being of Lake Superior and its people. For its broad reaching, solution-finding programs, for its willing
Oct 13, 2020
2019 Lake Superior Magazine Achievement Award
Keeping Community Afloat Madeline Island Ferry Line and Apostle Islands Cruises keep service in mind
Lake Superior Day 2019 - Be the Big Lake's BFF
A roundup of Lake Superior Day/s activities from all four shores
Jul 17, 2019
USS Duluth Flag Raising
Crewmembers of the USS Duluth raised the "battle ensign" flag as part of a visit to their ship's namesake city.
Jun 14, 2019
Looking Back: USCG Cmdr. Erin Williams considers her time in Duluth
When U.S. Coast Guard Cmdr. Erin Williams took over to head the Marine Safety Unit Duluth in 2016, her most recent assignments had taken her to Alaska and to Europe, but she’d always had Duluth in mind as a work destination. In June, she will wrap up
May 16, 2019
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Around the Circle This Week: July 3, 2025
Lighthouse Restoration; Freighter Cruises & U.S. Navy Week
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Videos from Lake Superior Magazine
NASA/MODIS
Video: 2013-14's Lake Superior Ice in 60 Seconds
This week the U.S. Coast Guard concluded five months of ice-breaking operations on the Great Lakes. In this time-lapse video, watch the Lake Superior ice develop and, ever so slowly, break up in the spring.
Konnie LeMay
James R. Barker on a Foggy Duluth Morning
The James R. Barker, one of the largest vessels on the Great Lakes, gliding out of the fog and into the Duluth Ship Canal on a July morning.
Paul L. Hayden
High Falls on the Pigeon River
The High Falls on the Pigeon River, on the border between the United States and Canada in northern Minnesota, experienced almost double its normal flow after heavy rains during the week of May 20, 2013.
Phil Bencomo / Lake Superior Magazine
Video: Spring at Gooseberry Falls
Spring is a fantastic time to visit Gooseberry Falls, just up the shore from Two Harbors, Minnesota.
Paul L. Hayden / Lake Superior Magazine
Stormy Lake: Big Waves on Lake Superior, April 11, 2013
Ahead of an April snowstorm, wind gusts in Duluth topped 60 mph, creating huge waves on the Lake. Lake Superior Magazine's intrepid Paul Hayden braved the elements to capture this footage from Minnesota's near North Shore and Duluth.
