While the Great Loop has been attempted in everything from a kayak to 70+ foot boats, there are a few critical restrictions on vessels that can complete the circumnavigation.

Dozens of boats — many part of the 9-year-old America's Great Loop Cruisers' Association — remained idled Monday along the Mississippi and Illinois rivers, unable to pass stretches of the ...

Jill and James Iverson, of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, completed America’s Great Loop. The trip is a more than 6,000-mile loop around the United States and Canada. “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime ...

Knife River couple embarks on epic 'Great Loop' boat trip over 2 summers From the Great Lakes to great rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Ocean and Canadian canals, the 6,000-mile trip is one ...

The Great Loop takes boaters to the Gulf of Mexico, around Florida, along the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, Great Lakes, canals and rivers.

From enhanced boats to upgraded marinas, much has changed on the Great Loop since the early 1900s, including the Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway, a 234-mile passage erected by the U.S. Army Corps of ...

A little more than 2,000 boats have completed the Great Loop since 1985, according to records from the America’s Great Loop Cruisers’ Association. Celeste said she believes she is the first ...

Not only is membership growing, but more boats are completing the Great Loop.” Prior to 2020, the record number of reported loops completions in a year was 180 boats in 2019.

Knife River couple completes 6,400-mile 'Great Loop' motorboat journey Kay and Greg Libby spent two summers circling the eastern half of the U.S. on their boat, Superior Passage.

They did the loop in a Meridian 459 power boat, which they bought after selling their houseboat. Now that they're home, they plan to do the reverse to get a houseboat back.