Lake Superior offers quite the view. At some vistas you are able to see Wisconsin, but for most of the North Shore, it's as though beautiful Minnesota has it's own ocean. The body of water has carved out the granite along the north shore creating amazing hiking trails for tourism. It offers cliffs and rocks that you can't find anywhere else. The hills and vantage points are remarkable. Lake Superior has a surface area comparable to the state of Maine approx. 31,700 square miles. Lake Superior holds roughly 3 quadrillion gallons of water... (let that sink in) this massive body of water is fed by over 200 rivers and it is the coldest and deepest of all the Great Lakes.