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All I have to say is no matter how many people in the Midwest try to convince us, even though your lakes are beautiful, none of you come close to the majestic beauty of the alpine lakes in Idaho, even Lake Tahoe falls short. There is nothing like crystal blue glacial lakes, and I am talking big lakes, with the craggy snow capped peaks of the Sawtooth Mountains or Cabinet Mountains, or Idaho's countless other mountains framing the backdrop to hundreds of other lakes within the Gem State. The only other state that would give Idaho a run for its money concerning lakes is Alaska.
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That's pretty much true, but when I saw this thread I wasn't thinking on that level, more about popular lakes or popular "lake states". Mountain glacial lakes are more beautiful than the ocean in many cases!
This thread has turned silly and kind of funny
All I have to say is no matter how many people in the Midwest try to convince us, even though your lakes are beautiful, none of you come close to the majestic beauty of the alpine lakes in Idaho, even Lake Tahoe falls short. There is nothing like crystal blue glacial lakes, and I am talking big lakes, with the craggy snow capped peaks of the Sawtooth Mountains or Cabinet Mountains, or Idaho's countless other mountains framing the backdrop to hundreds of other lakes within the Gem State. The only other state that would give Idaho a run for its money concerning lakes is Alaska.
Polls on this forum are often determined by how many people from a particular state or region vote for what they are familier with, thus these polls are often flawed.
No one disputes the beauty of the western states. The mountains there are spectacular. However the beauty of the states of the upper midwest is unknown to most of the nation. Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan hardly ever get the credit they deserve for natural beauty. I met an older couple from out west last summer in Upper Michigan. They told me they were completly shocked at how beautiful the state was. They had no idea about what was up here, and never expected to find what they did. Many of the lakes up here are isolated, and very private. Much of the great lakes shorline is also quite unspoiled. There is no where in the USA like the upper midwest, it is unique. Isle Royal, Sleeping bear dunes, Apostle Islands, Door peninusla, Arrowhead area of Minnesota, these places are all very unique and beautiful. Alot of people on the east and west coasts think the midwest is only flat farmlands that stretch for miles, frozen for half the year. I guess it is thier loss.
I said none of the lakes around here were swampy, didn't say a thing about MN. I'm nowhere near MN. Nice try, but FAIL.
Big difference. The midwest is a prairie and generally the lakes are just little dips in the grass filled water, they are muddy and almost like sinking sand (the ground under the water that is). A friend of mine went on a boating trip to Wisconsin and putting his boat into the water (not the Great Lakes) he had his foot stuck and lost a shoe from the mud in the lakes up there.
Big difference. The midwest is a prairie and generally the lakes are just little dips in the grass filled with rain and snow melt water, they are muddy and almost like sinking sand.
None of them I have been to in MN or WI on vacations were like what you say they are. Most were fairly deep, rocky, and crystal clear. You are mixing up the upper Great Lakes region with the Great Plains region.
Big difference. The midwest is a prairie and generally the lakes are just little dips in the grass filled with rain and snow melt water, they are muddy and almost like sinking sand.
His location says "West Michigan"
I'm pretty sure you don't know what you're talkin about.
None of them I have been to in MN or WI on vacations were like what you say they are. Most were fairly deep, rocky, and crystal clear. You are mixing up the upper Great Lakes region with the Great Plains region.
Do you have photos? So where are all these rocks and outside of the water up there? Because the land is a fairly flat prairie... and as a Long Island resident I know what flat land turns into when it gets very wet.
Kiddie pools. A 3 foot deep puddle in a prairie is not a lake.
Superior is deeper than any lake in NY.
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Superior is deeper than any lake in NY.
