This page is intended to centralize conditions and resource links about the Great Lakes rather than repeating the same info in multiple places which is a prescription for getting information out of sync. Individual run descriptions will still be found on the location pages that are home to those runs. Currently Lake Superior (as of 2024) is the only lake with its own dedicated page. That will likely change as we get more information about paddling on the other lakes.

Conditions

Paddling the Lakes

(some of these can just be circular references if we don't yet have specific downwind run descriptions yet for a Great Lake in relation to a USA state or a Canadian province - but these links will be the places going forward to look for run descriptions on any of the lakes)

Resources

• General
  • Great Lakes Paddlers
  • Surf Kayaking the Great Lakes Interview with Keith Wikle
  • Surfski on the Great Lakes Nick Murray from TCSurfski podcast
• Lake Michigan
  • Shipwrecks
    • Close to Traverse City​​​​​​
    • ​ Michigan Shipwrecks.org
• Lake Ontario
  • Surfski Ontario (facebook)
• …