Are their any popular lakes or rivers in the Midwest Region?

Answer 1

Many popular lakes and rivers -The region consists of twelve states in the north-central United States: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota , Ohio and Wisconsin. Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron and Lake Erie border Midwestern states. The state of Minnesota is known as 'the land of 10,000 lakes' that name is no exaggeration as the state has 11,842 lakes that are over 10 acres in size. The Ohio river, the Wabash river, the Mississippi river, the Missouri river are a few of the rivers running through the Midwestern region. There were also extensive canal systems built to enhance the water traffic between lakes and rivers in the Midwest. The Wabash and Erie Canal was a shipping canal that linked the Great Lakes to the Ohio River via an artificial waterway. The canal provided traders with access from the Great Lakes all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. Over 460 miles long, it was the longest canal ever built in North America.

The canal known as the Wabash & Erie in the 1850s and thereafter, was actually a combination of four canals: the Miami and the Erie from the Maumee River near Toledo, Ohio to Junction, Ohio, the original Wabash and Erie Canal from Junction, Ohio to Terre Haute, Indiana , the Cross Cut Canal from Terre Haute, Indiana to Worthington, Indiana (Point Commerce), and the Central Canal from Worthington to Evansville, Indiana . The Rich Valley section ran through Peru, Indiana and Logansport, Indiana.