January, it's not long before the Great Lakes' largest ships dock for the season. Here's where to find them until March.

While you're in Michigan's Upper Peninsula this summer, consider a stop in Sault Ste. Marie, a quaint border town famous for its shipping locks. The area also features downtown shopping and dining, ...

One of the Great Lakes' famous locks at Sault Ste. Marie has closed for the season to allow maintenance, but visitors can still see the system's larger lock in action until January. The smaller ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, MI - The last freighter to make it through the Soo Locks before the huge system closed Thursday night for its annual winter maintenance was a 1,004-foot ship that has been a Great ...

Well past midnight and the planned closing time for the Soo Locks, the American Mariner made passage through the Poe Lock to bring down the curtain on the 2024-25 shipping season on the Upper Great ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, MI - It may have hit 80 degrees downstate today, but it looked like winter in parts of the Upper Peninsula. An ice buildup in the Soo Locks caused an eight-hour delay for some big ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (WXYZ) — The Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie will close to all shipping traffic on Thursday night for the next two months for annual seasonal ...

The 1,004-foot-long American Spirit was the last Great Lakes freighter to traverse the Soo Locks for the 2025-26 shipping season on Thursday, Jan. 15, as the facility closes for winter maintenance.