The effects of recent erosion on the Lake Michigan shoreline in St. Joseph have resulted in smaller beaches and damage to popular paths.

After the recent winds, the water reaches farther inland at Tiscornia Park and Silver Beach.

Lions Park Beach, near the water treatment plant, is now exposed rock and breakwater structures, with damaged concrete near playground equipment.

At the lighthouse pier on Thanksgiving weekend, debris from a deck that had been carried out to see somewhere up-shore blocked part of the path out to the lighthouse.

The visible sandbar in the lake reaches well out into the water, and part of a street near Glenlord Beach has dropped off the cliff.