At 17 miles away, Whitefish Point is the nearest navigation mark to the wreckage of the ore freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald, which sank in 1975.

The Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve protects the shipwrecks in a portion of the bay for future generations of sports divers.

The Point is a popular place for rock collectors, ship watchers, and bird watching.

Whitefish Point's land and water provides a natural corridor for birds that makes it a migratory route of world significance.

Whitefish Point is the home of a former United States Coast Guard station.