Lake Superior Podcast

We are made stronger by story and there’s no better source than the continent's largest body of freshwater, Lake Superior. Join hosts Walt Lindala and Frida Waara as they highlight the five National Parks that ring this Greatest of the Great Lakes - meeting the people, touring the places and learning about the projects that make these parks and body of water so remarkable.

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Brought to you by The National Parks of Lake Superior Foundation (www.nplsf.org).

Theme song: King Whirl by David Huckfelt (www.davidhuckfelt.com).

Photo Credit: David Guttenfelder.

Podcast sponsored by Café Imports, a Minneapolis-based importers of fine, specialty green coffees.

Podcasting since 2021 • 66 episodes

Lake Superior Podcast

Latest Episodes

S6 E4: Tourism, Economic Growth, and the Magic of Munising - An Interview with Kathy Reynolds

Our National Parks are important places, not just for their preservation of natural beauty and resources, but also for the economic impact they bring to gateway communities. Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula sees n...

March 05, 2025 • Season 6 • Episode 4 • 34:57

S6 E3: The Lake Trout Resurgence In Lake Superior: A Conservation Success Story - An Interview with Shawn Sitar

Since the 1940’s, Lake Trout have been extinct in all of the Great Lakes except Lake Superior. Pressure from commercial fishing as well as the invasion of sea lamprey devastated this native species, and the population in Lake Superior also suff...

February 20, 2025 • Season 6 • Episode 3 • 28:22

S6 E2: Michigan Ice Fest – Where Adventure Meets Community – An Interview with Bill Thompson

Winter can be a sleepy time at the National Parks on Lake Superior, but at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore near Munising, Michigan, visitors come to snowmobile, mush dogs, snowshoe, fish and cross-country ski. But the biggest event to bring f...

January 29, 2025 • Season 6 • Episode 2 • 31:27

S6 E1: Chasing Sunrise On Lake Superior: An Interview with Bugsy Sailor

New Year Resolutions, if you don’t make them, chances are you thought about it. But do those promises keep? In this episode of the Lake Superior Podcast Walt Lindala and Frida Waara talk with Bugsy Sailor, the Official Unofficial Ambassador of ...

January 22, 2025 • Season 6 • Episode 1 • 34:38

S5 E14: The Estivant Pines Story - 50 Years of Conservation with Charles Eshbach

The forests that ring Lake Superior are some of the most magical on the continent. At the tip of Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, in Copper Harbor, you’ll find the Estivant Pines. This 570 acres of old-growth pine has lured hikers for decades. Bu...

November 21, 2024 • Season 5 • Episode 14 • 37:51

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