Tagged: Great Lakes

Houghton and the Keweenaw will welcome thousands of people seeing the area for the first time this summer as part of a series of summer cruises. (more…)

A big increase in cruise ships docking at Port Milwaukee is bringing around $6 million in improvements to help accommodate that traffic. And a major piece of that funding will be a $3.5 million grant to help expand maritime infrastructure for larger cruise ships, Gov. Tony Evers announced Thursday. (jsonline.com)

The summer of 2021 was going to be a record year for Muskegon’s port, with nearly 50 stops from cruise ships touring the Great Lakes. That was pre-COVID-19, when the number of passengers cruising on the Great Lakes from Toronto to Chicago was showing steady year-over-year growth. (wzzm13.com)

A pair of resolutions passed Wednesday could help open the way for Duluth to become a more attractive cruise ship destination come 2022. Both the Duluth Seaway Port Authority and the Duluth Economic Development Authority approved resolutions that could provide up to a combined $40,000 to cover the cost of designing a facility that could one day welcome waterborne international travelers. (duluthnewstribune.com)

Cruising on the Great Lakes is an industry that has been on the rise in Michigan. “Great Lakes cruising has brought more than 100,000 port visits a year,” says Dave Lorenz, Vice President of Travel Michigan. “And we’ve been growing for a while as well.” But not in 2020. The industry took a blow at the beginning of the pandemic when Canada closed its port visits. (wzzm13.com)

A new “Inside Passage” cruise route has been identified by the Great Lakes Cruising Coalition (GLCC) with the assistance of Parks Canada, Destination Northern Ontario (DNO) and several of Lake Superior’s North Shore communities. (boreal.org)

Port Milwaukee ended its 2019 cruise ship season this week, welcoming a 300-passenger ship from Hamburg, Germany. Milwaukee hosted 10 cruise ships this season, more than double the number from 2018. The port estimates cruise ships brought more than 3,200 passengers to the city this year. (wpr.org)

Ports abound throughout the Great Lakes, welcoming vacationers from the United States and further abroad. To meet the demand from cruisegoers, several cruise lines have been increasing their presence in the region, with upwards of 20 to 30 stops each season at individual ports around the lakes. (greatlakesnow.org)