The Great Loop is a circumnavigation of the eastern U.S., and part of Canada, down the Mississippi, through the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway and the Great Lakes.
While some mariners are still enjoying Lake Pepin as the weather turns colder, Lake City's boat repair shops are already seeing their usual surge in business.
But not everyone embraces the growing demand for tearing through the woods aboard power sports equipment. Some call the machines “wreckcreational” because of the environmental damage they can cause.
