Muskegon

Michigan

USA

The breakwaters and harbor entrance on Lake Michigan at Muskegon, Muskegon County, Michigan, USA. The harbor entrance opens into Muskegon Lake, on which the city is situated.

Muskegon is the greater populated of two principal cities of and included in the Muskegon-Norton Shores Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is further included in the larger Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland Combined Statistical Area. Muskegon is the largest city on the eastern shores of Lake Michigan.

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Break Water Light, Muskegon, Michigan, USA

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General Location:
The Great Lakes that border Michigan from east to west are Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. Bounded on the south by the states of Ohio and Indiana, sharing land and water boundaries with both. Michigan's western boundaries are almost entirely water boundaries, from south to north, with Illinois and Wisconsin in Lake Michigan; then a land boundary with Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula, that is principally demarcated by the Menominee and Montreal Rivers; then water boundaries again, in Lake Superior, with Wisconsin and Minnesota to the west, capped around by the Canadian province of Ontario to the north and east.

Local Motto or Saying:
Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam, circumspice (Latin) "If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you"

Nickname:
"Lumbertown", "Port City", "Lumber Queen of the World", "Skeetown" (informal), "The Beer Tent Capital of the World"