Lake Michigan Beach, MI

Lake Michigan Beach is a Berrien County CDP and unincorporated community in Hagar Township, sitting on the Lake Michigan shore. The place is also known as Hagar Shores, a name that makes sense once you notice the township frame behind the beach label. Established in 1922 as primarily a summer resort, it later became a community with permanent residents. Lake Michigan Beach is not a municipality; it is a named place on the lakeshore, with the statistical CDP label and Hagar Township doing the civic work. The local read is lake, township, and a resort name that stayed put.