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View Poll Results: Which state has the best lakes
Minnesota 105 26.38%
Michigan 122 30.65%
Wisconsin 35 8.79%
Maine 5 1.26%
New York 42 10.55%
New Hampshire 4 1.01%
Washington 14 3.52%
Vermont 1 0.25%
Idaho 8 2.01%
California 21 5.28%
Florida 14 3.52%
Texas 13 3.27%
Ohio 8 2.01%
Arizona 3 0.75%
Nevada 3 0.75%
Voters: 398. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 06-22-2010, 12:03 PM
 
Location: West Michigan
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I think this picture actually helps to prove Michigan's case!

Look at the ridiculous amount of shoreline that Michigan has along the Great Lakes. Nearly all of that shoreline is beautiful. No state can match the quality, volume and variety of "Lakefront views" that Michigan has. It's not even close.

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Oh, that's true. But also put that into perspective. The vast majority of that 40,000 square miles are the water claims on the Great Lakes (dark blue on map below), not the lakes within the land area of Michigan.

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Old 06-22-2010, 01:23 PM
 
Location: northern Vermont - previously NM, WA, & MA
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Testy are we? If fake lakes are being brought into the discussion than it opens up a whole other aspect to the discussion. I can think of a handfull of other fake lakes in the West that are as beautiful as Powell may be to some people.
Man Made Lakes have always been open to this discussion. Couldn't imagine Austin without Lake Travis, or Atlanta without Lake Lanier. I had so much fun at Lake Powell and somebody decided to be negative and bring it down.

Better man made lakes in west? I'm open to know more...
What lakes are they? Pictures?

As to anyone that wants to bring down Lake Powell

this is fun..

Cliff jumping, Lake Powell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H02hgoksNYI

awesome...

Boating through canyons of Lake Powell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t4YMwSPEx0

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Old 06-22-2010, 04:42 PM
 
Location: Midwest
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Definately Michigan.
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Old 06-22-2010, 05:30 PM
 
Location: West Michigan
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I don't know when this thread degenerated into a discussion of whether a man-made lake is a "real" lake or not, but that truly is beside the point. Re-reading the OP I don't see where there is a requirement for the lakes being brought up or discussed to be natural lakes. I think a lake is a lake, period. If it is a couple acres in size and you can put a fish in it, a boat in it, or your butt in it to either swim or float around, it should be open for discussion. Lake Powell is an amazing lake, so are many others that are man-made.
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Old 06-22-2010, 07:11 PM
 
Location: northern Vermont - previously NM, WA, & MA
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I don't know when this thread degenerated into a discussion of whether a man-made lake is a "real" lake or not, but that truly is beside the point. Re-reading the OP I don't see where there is a requirement for the lakes being brought up or discussed to be natural lakes. I think a lake is a lake, period. If it is a couple acres in size and you can put a fish in it, a boat in it, or your butt in it to either swim or float around, it should be open for discussion. Lake Powell is an amazing lake, so are many others that are man-made.
Thank you, I like all different kinds of lakes for different reasons. It would have been a limited thread otherwise. Yes Lake Powell is the bomb diggity!
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Old 06-22-2010, 07:57 PM
 
Location: Ohio, USA
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Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota
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Old 06-22-2010, 07:59 PM
 
Location: 48205
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That's a no brainer: Michigan, of course! The state's "glory"!
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Old 06-22-2010, 09:07 PM
 
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Man-made "lakes" are crap and I can't stand man-made "lakes". I guess you people down in the south and southwest don't have much to compare it to but if you'd lived up in Minnesota and are used to seeing the real thing five, ten, twenty times a day during your normal daily routine, then you'd be saying the same thing. You guys down there just don't have enough experience with the real thing so your man made bodies of water are all you have. You can enjoy your man made bodies of water all you want but because chose to live in the desert, you don't get to say that you have good lakes.
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Old 06-22-2010, 09:21 PM
 
Location: Cleveland bound with MPLS in the rear-view
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Fake lakes could be synonymous with new urbanism (or fake urban development). The point being that if fake lakes can be considered in this "contest" then new urbanism should be considered for any urban discussions as well. Now new urbanist developments would never hold a candle to neighborhoods or districts in Chicago, NYC, SF, Boston, etc. but neither should man-made lakes in a lakes discussion!
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Old 06-22-2010, 09:30 PM
 
Location: Southern Minnesota
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Fake lakes could be synonymous with new urbanism (or fake urban development). The point being that if fake lakes can be considered in this "contest" then new urbanism should be considered for any urban discussions as well. Now new urbanist developments would never hold a candle to neighborhoods or districts in Chicago, NYC, SF, Boston, etc. but neither should man-made lakes in a lakes discussion!
Exactly.
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