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County and city parks records, 2026
The five interpretive trails of record are held in the city and county parks, not in town. Bendix Woods County Park — the county's first county park, donated to the newly formed county parks, 195 acres on the park's own record (one carrier prints about 190, another 175; the variance prints whole) — carries a 27-acre state-dedicated nature preserve of beech and maple and the hiking trail through the Studebaker pine planting that spells "STUDEBAKER," with about four miles of hiking trail in the park brochure. Spicer Lake carries its Glacier Flats interpretive loop. Pinhook Park, a city of South Bend park, carries the Native Tree Trail, showcasing nearly a hundred native Indiana trees with educational signage, on a paved loop of about 1.1 kilometres with a Riverside Trail connection. Rum Village Park, also a South Bend city park — 160 acres of natural woodland acquired by the city in 1916, three miles of hiking trails and a nature centre — carries the city's other nature interpretation. Those are the interpretive trails within reach, each at its holder. The Portage Trail prints by the checklist's own test: no trail in the county park guides reached carries that name; the St. Joseph–Kankakee portage itself is a historic corridor carried in the tribes and corridors record, not a marked interpretive trail, and no mileage is claimed for it here.