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Granger Paths is pavement. The dirt system is a different roster in different ownership, and the two are listed separately here on purpose. Inside the CDP: as of November 2026 there is no designated natural-surface hiking trail on public ground inside the boundary; the township park's paths are recreation paths, and the one substantial natural park is still a design. Anderson Road Park — the Granger exception in progress: St. Joseph County owns approximately 115 acres at the north-east quadrant of Anderson and Beech roads, land-banked for about 25 years. On 18 February 2025 the county Redevelopment Commission approved a professional-services agreement with ELC, Indiana LLC, with DLZ as lead design team, for a natural park with trails — public outreach, concept designs, groundbreaking then projected around August 2025; the County Council then approved a parks bond of up to $6.6 million (vote 6–3) for Anderson Road Park and other county park projects, structured to replace a retiring highway bond without a property-tax increase. By December 2025 the project appears in print as the Anderson Trail County Park, with St. Joseph County Parks building trails inside it and Granger Paths proposing connectors to it from outside — a 1,100-foot saving and nearly $200,000 saved against the Anderson Road alternative, per a county council member's published letter. Its trails are therefore a funded design, not yet a walked roster, and are counted here as such. The walked dirt roster near Granger is the county parks': St. Patrick's numbered natural trails (next article), Bendix Woods' named woodland loops, Chamberlain Lake's 1.5-mile loop, Spicer Lake's wetland-woodland system, Ferrettie/Baugo Creek's creek trails, and the Izaak Walton chapter's member trails — each carried in the ring article below. The separation the register required is the finding: in 2026 a Granger resident's paved miles are in the CDP and their dirt miles are, every one of them, a drive away — with Anderson Road set to close exactly that gap.
Sources: St. Joseph County Redevelopment Commission, 18 Feb 2025 (Anderson Road Park design agreement, ELC Indiana LLC / DLZ; c.115 acres; county-owned c.25 years); St. Joseph County Council parks bond, up to $6.6M, 6–3 (Anderson Road Park and other park projects); South Bend Tribune letters, 17 Dec 2025 (Anderson Trail County Park; County Parks / Granger Paths partnership; 1,100 ft / c.$200,000 connector saving); St. Joseph County Parks trail guides (Bendix Woods, Chamberlain Lake, Spicer Lake, Ferrettie/Baugo Creek, St. Patrick's).