10 miles: width of Lake Champlain between Burlington, VT, and Port Douglas, NY, its widest point 1,300 lakes and ponds in New Hampshire 6,000 lakes and ponds in Maine 4 feet: Cape Cod National Seashore land lost each year to erosion 316 feet: maximum depth of Maine’s Sebago Lake, New England’s deepest 6.8 quadrillion gallons: […]
10
miles: width of Lake Champlain between Burlington, VT, and Port Douglas, NY, its widest point
1,300
lakes and ponds in New Hampshire
6,000
lakes and ponds in Maine
4
feet: Cape Cod National Seashore land lost each year to erosion
316
feet: maximum depth of Maine’s Sebago Lake, New England’s deepest
6.8
quadrillion gallons: estimated amount of water in Lake Champlain
10
million visitors to Providence’s WaterFire since it began in 1994
1.5
million gallons: water circulated daily through Water Country in Portsmouth, NH
355
years: age of Connecticut’s Rocky Hill-Glastonbury ferry, the country’s oldest continuously operating ferry service
34
pounds: weight of New England record lake trout, caught in 1981 from Lake Willoughby, VT
1
number of people who have swum the entire 120-mile length of Lake Champlain