Ohio's Lake Erie coastal area is home to diverse ecosystems supporting hundreds of species of fish, wildlife and plants. Thousands of people make their homes along Lake Erie's shore. Millions of Ohioans pull their daily drinking water from Lake Erie.
Billions of dollars are spent annual by visitors to the coastal region. Ohio’s Lake Erie watershed includes large and small businesses and industry, world-class institutes of higher-education, prime farmland, scenic rivers, lush forests, natural wetlands and marshes, growing sand dunes, undisturbed estuaries and countless other resources, seamlessly unifying Ohio with the world’s largest source of fresh surface water.
Links on this page will explore and explain the environs of Ohio’s Lake Erie coast and watershed.