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Below the county parks and the trusts sits a tier of small ground that no single article could carry and no honest build should drop. Grouped, it is this. Harris Township Park on Elm Road in Granger — playground, pickleball, basketball and baseball on a few township acres — is the CDP's own township park, a recreation ground with paths rather than a trail park. Toscana Park, the neighbourhood ground on Gumwood Road, matters to the trail record out of proportion to its size because Granger Paths' Gumwood section runs from it north to the Michigan line. The Beacon Health Loop, 1.2 paved miles around the Beacon Granger Hospital campus, is a private-institution loop open to walkers and used as one. The neighbourhood parcel file already in this build — the subdivision commons, detention-pond margins and undeveloped outlots of the plat-by-plat neighbourhoods record — is the rest of the tier: dozens of fragments, none signed as a trail, several walked daily by the streets around them, none of them public parkland in law. East of the CDP line, Cobus Creek County Park (Elkhart County, 30680 County Road 8) is the small holding with a real trail system: 84 acres of former farmland — prairie, woodland, wetland and a five-acre pond on Cobus Creek, one of Indiana's few cold-water trout streams — with over two miles of hard-packed and natural trails (the Pond Loop, 1.2 miles; the Prairie Loop, 0.7 mile; savanna and outer loops behind them), the nearest dirt walking to Granger's east side. Grouped this way the tier's character is clear: inside the CDP, small ground is recreational or merely open; the walkable wild fragments begin at its edges.
Sources: Harris Township (harristwp.com — Elm Road park); TrailLink, Granger Paths (Gumwood section from Toscana Park to the state line); AllTrails / Beacon Health (Beacon Health Loop, 1.2 mi, paved); Elkhart County Parks, Cobus Creek destination page and park map (84 acres; Pond and Prairie loops; trout stream; trail surfaces); the build's neighbourhoods parcel file for the in-CDP commons tier.