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does anyone know a website that shows how many lakes minnesota and michigan have. both states have a lot of lakes but i think states like wisconsin and michigan consider a lake to be 4 acres where as minnesota considers a lake to be 10 acres and minnesota does not record any lake less then 10 acres so its hard to compare.
I voted NY. 2nd would be Maine. I have never seen a Pacific NW lake. But how is MN leading? It is flat and dull.
New York is definetely one of the top 5 freshwater lake states IMO. I orginially voted for NEW YORK because I was thinking of beautiful mountain lakes like Lake George, Indian Lake and Blue Mountain Lake. NYS has thousands of other lakes including the Fingers and Lake Champlain, as well as two Great Lakes.
But like I said, if I could I would change my vote to MICHIGAN, because that state simply blows the others away with sheer volume of Great Lake waters (NYS in contrast is #3 or #4). Anybody who wants to be fair has to admit that. Michigan also has many smaller interior lakes, many of them in pristine condition in National and State Forests.
"But how is MN leading?"
People are probably voting for MINNESOTA because of the sheer number of lakes, plus a coastline on Lake Superior which is actually very scenic. Like Michigan, many lakes are in wild forest land. And because the state has large flat areas, many of the lakes are interconnected for some serious long distance canoeing and kayacking.
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State Facts (http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/history/mnstatehistory/state_facts.html - broken link)
On this website it shows that the number of lakes over 10 acres is 15,291. As far as natural beauty or awe inspiring lakes, that is subjective, but I can definitely agree that mountain lakes can be absolutely spectacular...but so can foresty lakes (Lake of the Woods) or lakes near large hilly bluffs (e.g. Superior).
MN wins this easily. Let me hit you with some knowledge: Minneapolis alone has ten lakes within it's city boundries. St Paul has a handful more. Lake Minnetonka and White Bear Lake are both within minutes of the city boundries and are huge. Minnesota has by far the most lakes. WI and MI come close but those two states measure lakes as any body of water larger than 4 acres. MN measures lakes as having atleast 10 acres of water. If MN measured by WI and MI standards, we'd have over 22K lakes. Our seven largest lakes are bigger than MI's largest inland lake, actually nine if you include Lake of the Woods and Rainy Lake which are shared with Canada. Simply put, lakes are just like hockey: Michigan is the only state that comes close to us, but we are still far and away the best.
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