Surface runoff that leaves North America eventually reaches one of three ocean systems: the Atlantic, the Arctic or the Pacific. Some runoff remains inside closed basins where water ends in lakes, wetlands or dry ground. The ridges separating those destinations form the continent’s major drainage divides. A drainage basin includes every slope, stream and tributary…
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The Lake Superior Circle Tour is a self-guided road route of about 1,300 miles, or 2,092 kilometers, around the world’s largest freshwater lake by surface area. It passes through Ontario, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, crossing the Canada-United States border twice. The official line can be driven in either direction, with side trips adding hundreds of…
Great Bear Lake offers exceptional lake trout fishing in Canada’s Northwest Territories, including fish of extraordinary size. Its remoteness, cold water and special regulations also make it a trip that requires more planning than an ordinary drive-to lake. Most visiting anglers fish through a lodge or licensed outfitter during the brief ice-free season. Lake trout…
Lake Edward lies on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the western branch of the East African Rift. It sits just south of the equator, between Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park and Congo’s Virunga National Park. The lake’s setting places open water, rift escarpments and some of Africa’s richest…
