Stream the Duluth Ship Canal live cam overlooking the Aerial Lift Bridge. Catch ore boats, salties, and classic Great Lakes freighters arriving and departing in real time—horn salutes and all. Scroll for tips on the best times to watch, how to ID ships, and canal weather notes.
Duluth Canal Cam FAQ
What is the best time to watch ship arrivals?
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Morning and late afternoon often bring multiple transits, but arrivals happen all day. Watch when winds turn onshore for dramatic entries.
What does the horn salute mean at the Duluth canal?
It’s the traditional Ambassador Salute: three long blasts and two short blasts exchanged between ship and bridge as a friendly greeting.
How can I tell a Laker from a salty?
Lakers commonly have a self-unloading boom on deck and run Great Lakes routes; salties (ocean-going ships) tend to have deck cranes and different hull lines.
Where is the Duluth Canal Cam located?
The camera overlooks the Duluth Ship Canal and Aerial Lift Bridge in Duluth, MN, providing a live view of vessels entering and leaving the harbor.
Can I rewatch a specific arrival?
Use the stream’s DVR/rewind if available, and check our recent posts for timestamps, photos, and ship details.
Find out more about the history of the canal and the cities of Duluth, MN and Superior, WI, make a donation or learn about the Corps of Engineers’ Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center by visiting lsmma.com
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Duluth Canal Cam
What to Watch Today
- Bridge lifts & horn salutes: listen for the three-long, two-short Ambassador Salute when ships greet the bridge.
- Ship IDs: look for hull color, self-unloader booms, and crane count to tell Lakers from salties.
- Wind & waves: easterlies kick up waves at the canal — dramatic entries & spray.
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Lovely sunrise…but sun vanished with clouds.
Thanks Tea !😊
Good morning all !😀
Have a good day..🥰 Damn, we’ve got a heatwave again..
Good morning Stasia 🌻
Another heatwave is in our forecast for early next week.
Sorry you will suffer again in the heat. 🤗Take care ♥
Good morning Tea ! 🥰 I think this is the tail end of the heatwave, so we’ll manage..thanks…Have a good day🌸…..🥤
Hello ! Does anyone else have that bar at the bottom of the screen? Another problem is that I constantly have to refresh the page. It’s annoying🙁….Thank you !!!
The white bar comes and goes for me at different times.🙄
Another issue for me….when I click on picture to make it bigger…I get kicked out of site.
You can e-mail SPO if your problem continues….they always help with issues. 👍
Thank you Tea ! If this problem persists, I will write to the SPO….Or to the HNF..
getting kicked out of the page when clicking on a picture has been happening a lot lately so I just right click on the picture now and hit open in a new tab
HI Deborah, thanks for the suggestions of things to do in Duluth. We had a wonderful time and attended the outdoor concert at the Mansion and toured it the next day, went to the canal and the museum, the railroad museum and went to the tower. I didn’t climb it but DH did and he got some nice birds eye photos of the area. The weather was great too. We may come back another time.
sounds like you saw all the hotspots! glad you had a good time
We did and hope to come again in the future.
if you’re talking about the white area at the bottom, you might need to get an ad blocker to get rid of it, I have AdBlock plus and Adblocker Ultimate, they’re both free…the having to refresh I don’t know about
Debi….I have AdBlock Plus, but it doesn’t help…😣
sometimes I think you have to switch them out, I had ad blockers for a long time and then about three months ago they weren’t working for me so I changed to new ones and they are fixing the problem again…good luck
thank you…🤗
Debi….I turned off AdBlock and the bar disappeared…. I don’t know for how long😅
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J Boland drew a large crowd….