FYI, All Lake Mich beach is public beach !

[Saint_Thomas]

FYI,

There is no private beach on Lake Michigan.

All beach is public property up to the "high water mark", and the high water mark is almost impossible to define.

Really, check it out.

Alot of property owners try to "bluff" you off the beach front, but don't let those creeps give you a hard time.

"The Michigan Supreme Court in ​

Glass v Goeckel said that even where a riparian landowner on the Great Lakes owns the land down to the water’s edge, the public trust area (effectively, a public nonexclusive easement) extends beyond the water (and even way beyond the wet sand mark) and all the way to the ordinary high water mark.
Depending upon the topography of the beach involved, the distance between the water and the ordinary high water mark can be anywhere from 20-50 feet to several hundred feet or more."

Google this:
ATTORNEY WRITES By Clifford H. Bloom, Esq. Law, Weathers ...
THE BEACH WALKER CASE​

By Clifford H. Bloom, Esq.
Law, Weathers & Richardson, P.C.
333 Bridge Street, N.W., Suite 800
Grand Rapids, Michigan 49504

Now I (Tom) don't know about property in front of a Nuclear Power Plant or the like,
and you can't drive your dingy up to a marked swim area,
but anything in front of a house is public beach up to the high water mark. ​

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[SwimJim]

What you say may be true. However, even if you have the right to do something, that doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. Beach front in front of a private residence is considered private. Pure and simple. People who live there pay triple the taxes to live there and normal people respect their privacy. While noone will object if you walk by on the beach(normally), if you drive your pick up and unload your tanks on the soft sand, you will get to meet the sherriff. And you will lose. That's the way it's been for most of my 50 years on the lake.