I will happily pack my bags to stay anywhere remotely near a body of water. I don't care if it is a lake, river, ocean, or ...

Peak swimming temperatures in the Great Lakes typically occur in late summer/early fall. Swimming in cold lake water can lead to cold shock and hypothermia. The official start of summer is June 20, ...

Lake Havasu and Lake Austin rank among the warmest lakes for swimming in the country, according to a WorldAtlas report.

Swimming across Lake Wawasee presents a challenge that many have accomplished. Swimming around the lake? That one that had ...

Lake Martin The sweetest spot in Alabama may just be this lake, 80 miles southwest of Birmingham. When it was built in the 1920s, Lake Martin was the largest man-made body of water in the world; it ...

"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 ...

Nothing screams “summer” more than a day spent by the water. And Angelenos have many ways to access it, including a long coastline hugged by the Pacific, plenty of pools and refreshing swimming holes ...