Great Lakes polygon shapefile

JuliaSmith

I have searched high and low and I cannot find a Great Lakes polygon shapefile anywhere. All I have found available online are the polyline boundaries of the lakes and they are too complex to be converted to a polygon. I can't seem to download them from the USGS Seamless Viewer. I tried to extract them from the template maps provided in ArcMap but I can't seem to do that, either. Does anyone have any idea where I might find these shapefiles? I appreciate any assistance!

KirillShrayber

Here is the FREE downloadable archive (we drawn)  

This is the full map (shapefiles in zip archive) of the GREAT LAKES – US and CA
Water File – Lakes and Rivers (polygons) – 2020
List of the files in this archive:

1. great_lakes_us_ca.prj
2. great_lakes_us_ca.cpg
3. great_lakes_us_ca.dbf
4. great_lakes_us_ca.shp
5. great_lakes_us_ca.shx

Great Lakes Shapefile (free download) = 64 MB ZIP