Lake Superior Boat Tours

05/26/2025

05/19/2025

A little introduction to the largest jet boat in the fleet here at Lake Powell that I have the privilege to captain this summer season. This vessels name is "The Ladybird" On September 22 1966 our Frist lady, Ladybird Johnson dedicated the completion of the Glen canyon dam.
"The Ladybird" is 68 feet long and is powered by 3 John Deere diesel engines, with 2250 total hp. As you can see in the picture there is a bit of wind today, gust to 35 knots to be exact, but not to much for this beast!
And if your wondering, I did get some breakfast this morning after the return of the Canyon Princess.
Have a great afternoon everyone!

05/19/2025

Good morning everyone!
It looks like I missed my boat, no, thats the breakfast Cruise on the Canyon Princess, I am on a 10:30 tour to the Glen Canyon dam. Hopefully there is still some breakfast left when they get back!

05/15/2025

Today's final destination, Bryce Canyon National Park. Southern Utah has some fantastic scenery!

05/14/2025

Good morning everyone, here are a few pictures, not related to boating, but related to the selfish reasons we are spending this season in the Glen canyon, Lake Powell area instead of the fantastic Lake Superior area. The last picture... well Beep Beep!

05/07/2025

https://www.lakesuperiorboattours.com/

Just throwing a link out there for our website. Once again, no tours for this season 2025, just thought it might be useful for information for anybody looking to come and visit the greater Grand Island National Recreation Area and Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Hope everyone has a great summer!

Lake Superior Boat Tours offers private group tours for up to 6 people. Departs from Munising, MI. See the Pictured Rocks Cliff formation's and beaches of Grand Island, the beauty of Lake Superior. Tours depart from Cap'n Ron's Fish 'N' Chips 1344 Commercial St, Munising Mi

05/06/2025

Last, a few from the beginning of this season at Glen Canyon National Recreation area.

05/06/2025

A few more from the north.

05/06/2025

The days working with Paddling Michigan
This was bringing then Michigan Governor Rick Snyder on a kayaking tour.

05/06/2025

Good day everyone, my name is Dave Schmidtman, new owner of Lake Superior boat Tours. I would like to explain the reason why we are not offering boat tours this summer. But first I wanted to tell you more about myself. I've lived on the shores of Lake Superior all my life, growing up on the north shore in Minnesota near Grand Marais and then moved to Munising in 1994 to purchase Hillside Party Store. We had a great time operating Hillside for 15 years before selling that business, which is still the best party store in Alger County. After boating on Lake Superior for many, many years I finally acquired my Captain's license.
My first official captains' job was working for Paddling Michigan giving narrated tours around the great Grand Island National Recreation area. After 6 seasons and over a thousand tours around the island I got an opportunity to work in Alaska!
So, in the spring of 2023 flew to Valdez, Ak. to work for Pangaea Adventures hauling kayaks and passengers to the face of the Columbia Glacier via a water taxi, all I can say is, WOW!
Orca and Humpback whales, sea lions, sea otters, waterfalls, iceberg's, ... and well to be honest just too much to mention.
Now during the second season while working in Alaska, I was working with Mark Fredrickson (who I've known for nearly 30 years) on the purchasing Lake Superior Boat Tours which was finalized in October of 2025.
So, at this point all intentions where to get back into offering specialized private tours of the majestic cliffs, waterfalls, beaches of the beautiful hidden gem, Grand Island National Recreation Area, when in the dead of winter, January ish, I received a phone call from Lake Powell resort and marinas located in the Glen Canyon National Recreation area on Lake Powell and the Colorado river wondering if I would be interested in operating boat tours of the Glen Canyon Dam, Navajo Canyon and upstream to Rainbow Bridge national Monument.
Well, I looked the area up on the internet and saw how beautiful it is and, what can I say, here I am, I could not pass up the opportunity. So, I apologize for the inconvenience of this season's unavailable tours and wish all that will be vacationing in greater Munising area a special and safe time and to all the future and repeat travelers, we will be back up and running nest season.

01/13/2025

Do you like sunsets? We will be doing a special private sunset run this summer, it departs at 7:30pm and is around three hours in duration for only $335, this includes Captain and fuel. Our sunsets are really something special.