Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Lake Superior, Michigan
Known to the Ojibwe tribe as Lake Gichigumi (Big Water), Lake Superior is the world’s third largest freshwater lake after Lake Baikal in Russia and Tanganyika in Tanzania. It is the largest, deepest and coldest of the Great Lakes, beset by vicious storms that can spawn waves over 20 feet high, destroyers of countless ships that lie at the bottom of the Graveyard Coast near Munising, Michigan. It is also home to a place of great natural beauty, the nation’s…