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Park dedicated 6 June 1977; Indiana DNR property page and brochure, 2026
The natural trail system within the town's ordinary reach is Potato Creek State Park's, and it prints at trail length, ice, and village loss together. The DNR's own trail list carries six numbered hiking trails — Trail 1 at 2.2 miles moderate, Trail 2 at 2.0 rugged, Trail 3 at 1.0 moderate, Trail 4 at 2.5 moderate, Trail 5 at 1.0 easy, Trail 6 at 0.5 mile — plus the Peppermint Loop at 0.9 mile and the Friends Wetland Trail at 0.75 mile, about 10.85 hiking miles in all, beside the paved bicycle trail at 3.3 miles and the mountain-bike trail at 7.4 to 7.5 miles (the figure varies by carrier). The human traces the checklist asks for stand on the property's own record: Worster Lake, 327 acres, is a dammed lake — ice-plant water standing where a creek ran — and the park's six square miles were proposed as a park in the late 1930s by Darcey Worster and his conservation club, halted by the Second World War, designated in 1969, and dedicated on 6 June 1977 by Governor Otis R. Bowen. The park prints as state ground at boundary pointer from Lakeville: its lost-village and ice-house layer is the park's own interpretive record, not the town's, and no Lakeville man is named on the park's dedication record at the strength reached here.