{"id":211067,"date":"2026-06-05T00:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T00:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/211067\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T00:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T00:20:07","slug":"lake-erie-deemed-best-lake-by-usa-today-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/211067\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Erie deemed best lake by USA Today voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:WJET Erie;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"WJET Erie\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/232C1E841BC0BB863E0E9B74B574D5BADEBDCEDD7912DF6C56EBCD799BAD61E9\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefill_w0_h40;quality_80;format_webp\/\"\/><\/a>Thu, June 4, 2026 at 7:25 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_wjet_erie_articles_147\/ccf90801f00e23efe1249e4e0e913f47.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lake Erie deemed best lake by USA Today voters<\/p>\n<p>The votes have been counted, and our Great Lake rose to the top.<\/p>\n<p>Lake Erie was voted number one for &#8220;best lake&#8221; in <a data-ylk=\"slk:USA Today&#039;s Ten Best Readers&#039; Choice poll;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/10best.usatoday.com\/awards\/best-lake\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today&#8217;s Ten Best Readers&#8217; Choice poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:Headliners announced for 2026 Erie Blues and Jazz Festival;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/headliners-announced-2026-erie-blues-202915975.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Headliners announced for 2026 Erie Blues and Jazz Festival\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to USA Today, both the lake&#8217;s tourism and recreation are credited for the win, along with its shoreline cities to explore.<\/p>\n<p>VisitErie said the votes speak for themselves, and they show the community&#8217;s appreciation for Lake Erie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s certainly a reflection of community pride, and you know, we sit on the great natural asset that brings thousands and thousands of people here every year,&#8221; said Mark Jeanneret, interim president and CEO of VisitErie.<\/p>\n<p>This summer has plenty of recreation and water sports activities in store to look forward to on the lake.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thu, June 4, 2026 at 7:25 PM UTC Lake Erie deemed best lake by USA Today voters The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,92572,260],"class_list":["post-211067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-great-lake","tag-lake-erie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}