Are you allowed to walk on the beach? Maybe Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images Summer is here – the perfect time to take a walk on a beach. But doing so is not always as simple as it might sound. In Wisconsin, for instance, a legal case has stretched for months over whether Paul Florsheim may keep walking on a Lake Michigan beach he has walked for over 50 years. In July 2025, Florsheim, a retired professor of public health at the university where we work, got a ticket for trespassing on a b