The southeast links · Hanna Street, Beckett's Run and 6-Mile Creek

2010s — today

The south and east sides were the network's last gaps, and the named trails there are younger and plainer: road and creek corridors stitched toward the Rivergreenway's two southern anchors, Tillman Park and Moser Park. The Hanna Street Trail, 3.65 miles, stretches from Wallace Street south to the Rivergreenway and the 6-Mile Creek Trail at Tillman Park; its final phase, between Wallace and Berry streets, was to be completed by spring 2026 on the City's schedule. Beckett's Run Trail, 1.8 miles between Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Clinton Street, leaves a trailhead on the southeast side of Concordia Theological Seminary's campus and crosses the old canal landscape twice: the trail includes two large culvert crossings at the Wabash and Erie Feeder Canal and a bridge over Beckett's Run creek. The 6-Mile Creek Trail, about two miles as built — from Tillman Park behind Southtown Centre, north on Anthony Boulevard to Tillman Road and east to Lemar Drive — is the first piece of the network's planned closing move: extended east, it will connect Fort Wayne and New Haven and, joining the Rivergreenway's southern terminus at Tillman Park to its eastern terminus at Moser Park, form a 25-mile loop inside the greenway system itself.

Sources: City of Fort Wayne, Rivergreenway page — Hanna Street Trail: "The 3.65-mile long trail stretches from Wallace Street to the Rivergreenway and 6-Mile Creek Trail at Tillman Park. The final phase between Wallace and Berry Street will be completed by the Spring of 2026"; Beckett's Run Trail: 1.8 miles, Martin Luther Drive to Clinton Street, trailhead off Martin Luther Drive at Concordia Theological Seminary, "two large culvert crossings at the Wabash & Erie Feeder Canal, and a bridge crossing Beckett's Run creek"; 6-Mile Creek: "about 2 miles in length," the Tillman Park–Southtown–Anthony–Tillman Road–Lemar Drive route, the future New Haven connection and the 25-mile loop. The City's Trails page carries the same trail descriptions. (An earlier version of the City's trails material attached the 3.65-mile figure to Beckett's Run; the current pages assign 3.65 miles to Hanna Street and 1.8 to Beckett's Run, and this entry follows the current pages.)