How deep are the Great Lakes? Find out the depth of Lake Ontario here

But how deep are they exactly and where is Lake Ontario?

This is how deep the individual Great Lakes are:

Lake Superior

• Average depth: 483 feet
• Maximum depth: 1,332 feet

Lake Superior is the largest, deepest and coldest of the five Great Lakes. Its depth is almost 30 meters less than the height of the Willis Tower in Chicago. At 7,600 cubic meters, it also has by far the largest water level of the five lakes.

Lake Michigan

• Average depth: 279 feet
• Maximum depth: 925 feet

Lake Michigan is the second largest of the Great Lakes by volume. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates its maximum depth to be about 920 feet—think of it as the Renaissance Center would be if Detroit’s tallest skyscraper were about 20 stories taller (it has 73). Lake Michigan also holds 900,000 cubic feet of water, making it the second largest of the five Great Lakes.

Lake Ontario

• Average depth: 283 feet
• Maximum depth: 802 feet

The easternmost of the Great Lakes, Lake Ontario is the second smallest of the five lakes by volume (about 390 cubic miles of water) — but as a downstream lake, it is most affected by human activities that occur in Lakes Ontario, Huron, Erie and Michigan, according to the EPA. Lake Ontario’s maximum depth is just over 800 feet — slightly deeper than two regulation football fields laid end-to-end.

Lake Huron

• Average depth: 195 feet
• Maximum depth: 750 feet

Lake Huron is the second largest of the Great Lakes by surface area and the third largest by volume, and boasts the longest shoreline on the list. As for its depth, Lake Huron is 750 feet deep—that’s about 750 Subway sandwiches below sea level. It holds 850 cubic miles of water.