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Mountain ranges that exist in multiple states are included directly in this category, as well as in the 'by state' category. If you are looking for a map, try looking it up in Google images. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mountain ranges of the United States .
The Great Lakes, also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes spanning the Canada–United States border.The five lakes are Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario (though hydrologically, Michigan and Huron are a single body of water; they are joined by the Straits of Mackinac).
Table of the most isolated major summits of the United States; Mountain peaks of Alaska; Mountain peaks of California; Mountain peaks of Colorado; Mountain peaks of Hawaii; Fourteener; Geography of the United States; Geology of the United States; Lists of mountains by region; List of Ultras of the United States; Category:Mountains of the United ...
Tired of heading to the same old, familiar spots for family vacations? Here are 24 bucket-list spots you must go to before the kids leave home.
Paleo-Indian cultures were the earliest in North America, with a presence in the Great Plains and Great Lakes areas from about 12,000 BCE to around 8,000 BCE. [citation needed] Prior to European settlement, Iroquoian people lived around Lakes Erie and Ontario, [2] Algonquian peoples around most of the rest, and a variety of other indigenous nation-peoples including the Menominee, Ojibwa ...
The Great Lakes Basin consists of the Great Lakes and the surrounding lands of the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin in the United States, and the province of Ontario in Canada, whose direct surface runoff and watersheds form a large drainage basin that feeds into the lakes.
The main belt of the Rocky Mountains along with the parallel Columbia Mountains and Coast Ranges of mountains and islands continue through British Columbia and Vancouver Island. In the United States, the Cordillera branches include the Rockies, the Sierra Nevada, the Cascades, and various small Pacific coastal ranges.
Here are some of the top lakes in each state, with a special focus on fishing opportunities. (Be sure to check for beach and park closings before making plans.) Editor's note: This story was ...