Pictured Rocks named one of top Great Lakes beaches

The Great Lakes offer some of the U.S.'s best beaches, we've always thought. Now there's some information to back that assumption up, with recent rankings from a Florida professor generally acclaimed as a beach expert.

Excerpt: Great news for lovers of the Great Lakes: A Florida professor, who for years has ranked the nation's best ocean beaches, finally turned his attention to fresh water.

And the top Great Lakes beach is: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, the pristine national park in northwest Michigan, with massive sand dunes and miles of shoreline on Lake Michigan.

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Source: The Cleveland Plain Dealer
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