13 Facts About Lake Michigan

The word "Lake Michigan" is believed to come from the Ojibwe word meaning "great water".

Lake Michigan is joined via the narrow, open-water Straits of Mackinac with Lake Huron, and the combined body of water is sometimes called Michigan–Huron.

The warming of Lake Michigan was the subject of a 2018 report by Purdue University.

Lake Michigan is the only Great Lake that is wholly within the borders of the United States; the others are shared with Canada.

Lake Michigan freighters are used on the lakes that are too large to pass the locks and enter the ocean.

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Lake Michigan is connected by the Illinois Waterway to the Gulf of Mexico via the Illinois River and the Mississippi River.

In January 2013, Lake Michigan's monthly mean water levels dipped to an all-time low of 576.

Sand dunes located on the east shore of Lake Michigan are the largest freshwater dune system in the world.

Lake Michigan is home to a small variety of fish species and other organisms.

Lake Michigan is stocked annually with steelhead, brown trout, and coho and chinook salmon, which have begun natural reproduction in some Lake Michigan tributaries.

However, several introduced invasive species, such as lampreys, round goby, zebra mussels and quagga mussels, continue to cause major changes in water clarity and fertility, resulting in knock-on changes to Lake Michigan's ecosystem, threatening the vitality of native fish populations.

Two passenger and vehicle ferries operate ferry services across Lake Michigan, both connecting Wisconsin on the western shore with Michigan on the east.

The Lake Express, established in 2004, carries passengers and vehicles across the lake between Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Muskegon, Michigan.