The search shown: four registers, each checked and named

THE SEARCH · NOVEMBER 2026

A negative is only worth what was searched for it, so the search prints here in full. First, the state system: the DNR's cooperative trail program, administered by its Division of Outdoor Recreation — its program manual for the 2025–2027 biennium, its published trail pages and its trail maps were read whole. The program's designated estate is four trails statewide; the one in this county is Buffalo Run. Second, the state association: the Indiana Snowmobilers Association's trail listing was read entry by entry — the same four cooperative trails, plus the Potawatomi Trail in Steuben County, carried by its club and the association with no DNR affiliation. No Granger, Clay Township or Harris Township trail appears in either state-level register. Third, the county clubs: the county's club of record is the Michiana Trail Riders Coalition, the Buffalo Run club, whose own published record — its history, its Rice Road clubhouse west of South Bend, its trail days — was read; it maintains the one western trail and no eastern course, and no second St. Joseph County snowmobile club with a designated trail stands in any register reached. A South Bend Snowmobile Club appears in national club directories as a name and a post-office box, a legacy listing without a trail attached in any current register — printed here so the name is not later inflated into a second system. Fourth, the trail registers proper: the association's register and the state's map series were cross-checked against the general trail inventories (the DNR's map as republished in the press record of December 2022 and December 2023, and the commercial trail guides), which repeat the state's four-trail estate and add nothing in this county. Four registers, four negatives for this ground, one positive for the county — that is the searched negative on which the first article's answer stands, and it is as strong as the open record makes it: if a groomed course were ever signed across Harris Prairie, it would have to appear in the first two registers to be designated at all, and it appears in neither.

Sources:

1. Indiana DNR, Snowmobile Trails Program Manual, 2025–2027 biennium: the cooperative program's structure, its four-trail estate, its leases and payments — read whole; the mechanism article below draws on it.
2. Indiana Snowmobilers Association, trail listing: the four cooperative trails with the association's own mileages, and the Potawatomi Trail carried without DNR affiliation — read November 2026.
3. Michiana Trail Riders Coalition, the club's own record (gomtrc.com, as carried in the DNR map and the sister Mishawaka build's reading of it): established 1983 as the South Bend Snowmobilers Club, renamed 2000, a 501(c)(3), clubhouse on Rice Road west of South Bend, trail clean-up day 24 October 2026.
4. Press republication of the DNR list: Townsquare Media stations (December 2022; December 2023) printing the DNR's trail list whole — the same four trails, Buffalo Run among them, no other county trail.