Grand Haven, Michigan is a Great Lakes port city with a long history of shipping. It's connection with shipping led to a warm tie with the United States Coast Guard. The Cutter
Escanaba, home ported in Grand Haven, was lost during World War II while on Greenland Patrol. The city marks the birthday of the Coast Guard each year with the annual Coast
Guard Festival and has been designated by an act of the United States Congress as
"Coast Guard City U.S.A." See the Coast Guard Festival Website for more information.

Photo at right shows 5 Coast Guard Cutters in the Grand Haven harbor for the 1998 U.S. Coast Guard Festival.

Grand Haven's Coast Guard Motor Life Boat makes it's way out of the Grand River Channel into Lake Michigan in heavy seas.

Grand Haven is home to the world's largest musical fountain.