Michigan offers a quality of living that is unsurpassed!

• Over 3,200 miles of freshwater coastline - more than any other state in the country
• Nearly 900 golf courses to enjoy - ranking 3rd in the nation in public golf courses
• 960,014 registered boats - more than any other state in the nation
• More than 11,000 inland lakes and 36,000 miles of rivers and streams
• In Michigan, you are never more than 6 miles from a lake or stream
• Stand anywhere in Michigan and you are within 85 miles of a Great Lake
• 1,300 designated mountain bike and bicycle trails
• 600 campgrounds
• More lighthouses than any ocean state - 116 on the shores of the Great Lakes
• 97 state parks
• 5 IMAX Theatres
• 5 professional sports teams: Tigers, Lions, Pistons, Red Wings, Shock

Michigan is home to the nation's…

• first traffic light
• oldest state fair - the Michigan State Fair, first held in 1849
• first "Boston Cooler"
• first typewriter
• largest free jazz festival, the Detroit International Jazz Festival

Michigan is also…

• the automobile capital of the world
• the home of Motown
• the softball capital of the world
• the cherry capital of the U.S.
• the blueberry capital of the U.S.

Detroit's Wayne County alone offers:

• 18 professional theaters - constituting the second largest theater district in America after New York
• 30 art museums
• 18 major shopping malls
• 9 universities, 7 colleges, 10 community colleges
• 64 hospitals

For additional Michigan facts and history, please click here.