• Lake Ontario is the 13th largest lake in the world.

 

  • Lake Ontario is the smallest Great Lake in surface area, but it exceeds Lake Erie in volume.

 

  • The 5 Great Lakes account for nearly 21 percent of the planet’s fresh water.

 

  • Central New York is known for its snowy winters and for receiving more snowfall than any other region in the Eastern United States in part because of the lake-effect snow from Lake Ontario.

 

  • The 5 Great Lakes account for nearly 21 percent of the planet’s fresh water.

 

  • The last time Lake Ontario Froze over was February of 1934. The closest is has come in recent years to freezing over was during a Polar Vortex in 2014 that froze nearly 45 percent of the lake.

 

  • Lake Ontario is home to the Thousand Islands, an Archipelago of nearly 2,000 islands.