The legal rights to use public road ends that border an inland lake has long been a topic of uncertainty, and occasionally contention in Oakland County and throughout the state of Michigan.

Land and water harmonize to compose Michigan into an outdoorsman’s paradise with lakes and streams and rivers bordered by four of the Great Lakes – Superior, Huron, Erie and Michigan. Much like a Lennon and McCartney masterpiece, land and water create the paradise but contaminants from residential, industry and agriculture threaten to break up that harmony.