Warm weather doesn't always mean warm lakes, and while summer in Michigan is approaching, residents planning their next trip to one of the Great Lakes should wait a little longer before jumping in.

Warm weather doesn't always mean warm lakes, and while summer in Michigan is approaching, residents planning their next trip to one of the Great Lakes should wait a little longer before jumping in.

Sasha Lauer loves wild swimming for the benefits it brings to her wellbeing but worries about the state of her local rivers. "We are pragmatic about it and are careful to keep our heads out of the ...

"Just do it." Yes, that’s a 20-year-old advertising slogan and practically a cultural joke now. But that tagline gets startlingly real as my bare toes clasp a gnarly rock ledge and I stare 30 feet ...

Lake Michigan — it's a beautiful lake, but it can be deadly. As of June 19, there have been 28 drownings in the Great Lakes so far this year. Ten of them occurred in Lake Michigan. Dave Benjamin, the ...

A woman who decided to go for a peaceful lake swim in Colorado found that her time in the water didn't go to plan after she experienced cold water shock. Instagram user @travelingholmes told Newsweek: ...

Tipton and Harper both said that any benefits from cold-water immersion come from the body’s cold-shock response: the sudden ...

Swimming in the San Francisco Bay is more than a hobby or a form of exercise for the avid community of swimmers who show up regularly to take a dip. It’s practically a spiritual experience. “I work a ...

At the end of a hike through a forested wilderness area on the shore of this Michigan lake, you'll be rewarded with swimming ...

Sharon Prahl was 21 when death nearly took her. She was biking cross-country with a friend in 1986 when she hit a rough patch and flipped her bike, fracturing her skull and injuring her spine. In the ...

As the sun rose over Lake Superior on the morning of August 24th, over 150 people went to Park Point to participate in the first annual Great Lake Superior Swim. This was a swim race in Lake Superior ...