Coast Guard Festival

Join us for this year's Grand Haven Coast Guard Festival featuring a host of family friendly activities. We invite you and your family and friends to join our community tradition of celebrating the U.S, Coast Guard. There's no other festival like ours and we guarantee fun for all ages. For the last 90 years we have had the privilege of hosting visitors and dignitaries from around the world who come here to enjoy our festivities, the natural beauty of our beach town and the hospitality of our community.

The festival unofficially began in 1924 as a Coast Guard personnel only picnic when the local Coast Guard station held rowing competitions for those service members stationed in Grand Haven. Today the Grand Haven Coast Guard Festival has become a premier event with attendance of over 350,000 people including the nation's highest ranking Coast Guard dignitaries from Washington, D.C.

The focus of the annual Grand Haven Coast Guard Festival is the National Coast Guard Memorial Service honoring those who sacrificed their lives in the service of their country while fulfilling their motto “SEMPER PARATUS” (“Always Ready”). Each year since the first picnic in 1924 and the first festival in 1937, we have celebrated our heroes, the men and women of the United States Coast Guard with fun filled family events at the annual Grand Haven Coast Guard Festival.

Successfully honoring the men and women of the United States Coast Guard at this annual event would not be possible without the cooperation of the United States Coast Guard, the local municipalities of Grand Haven, Spring Lake, and Ferrysburg, hundreds of dedicated volunteers, and our generous corporate sponsors.

Grand Haven Coast Guard Festival
113 North 2nd Street
Grand Haven, MI 49417, USA
Tel: (616) 846-5940 | Fax: (616) 846-2509
Office Hours: 9AM – 4PM (seasonal)