The Great Race started in Traverse City, Michigan. From there, it will ran north along Lake Michigan to the Upper Peninsula, crossed into Canada at Sault Ste. Marie, then traveled east along the north shore of Lake Huron, south toward Lake Ontario and east toward the crossing back into the United States at Thousand Islands, then back west along the south shore of Lake Erie and finished in the Detroit area on Sunday July 1st. In all, the race covered 2,200 miles, cross four states and one Canadian province, and afford sights of all five Great Lakes.