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Snowmobile Trails
The Buffalo Run's Route Logic — West of South Bend, Never Into Union Township
DNR trail map updated 8 January 2026; Indiana Snowmobilers Association trails page, 2026
The trail exists for the open farm ground west and northwest of South Bend, where winter closes nothing. The Buffalo Run runs west of South Bend through the county's open agricultural townships, linking toward the Michigan line…
The Coalition's People — a Named Club at Register Strength, Its Succession Unprinted
Michiana Trail Riders Coalition, Inc.; DNR Snowmobile Trails Program Manual 2025–2027
The trail is maintained by a corporation, and the public record names the corporation, not its officers. The Michiana Trail Riders Coalition, Inc. is the maintaining body on both the DNR map and the Association's page. The…
The Self-Funding Machine — Registration Fees Build and Groom the Trails
DNR Snowmobile Trails Program Manual 2025–2027; IC 9-18.1-14-4; IC 14-16-1-30
Indiana's snowmobile trails are paid for by snowmobilers, at statutory rates. The programme, begun in 1976 as a cooperative effort between Indiana's snowmobilers and the DNR, is funded completely by registration fees: the…
63 Miles or 68 — the Conflict Stands Whole, and the 70-Mile Test Fails
Association page vs DNR map, both read 2026
The trail's length is two numbers, and this build prints both. The Indiana Snowmobilers Association publishes the Buffalo Run at 63 miles of trails developed by the Michiana Trail Riders Coalition west of South Bend. The DNR's…
The Other Trails — the System Around the County
Indiana Snowmobilers Association trails page, 2026
The Buffalo Run is one of four state-cooperative trails, and the system explains its shape. The Association counts four DNR-cooperative trails in Indiana: the Buffalo Run here; the Heritage Trail at 34 miles (Hoagland); the Miami…
The Season's Gates — Posted Open or Closed, Whatever the Snow Says
DNR Snowmobiling in Indiana, 2026
A snowmobile trail in Indiana is a legal state before it is a physical one. The DNR's rule prints on its snowmobiling page and its map alike: trails are open 1 December through 31 March, only when posted "open" — a trail under…
The Blizzard of 1978 Put Snowmobiles to Work Everywhere Reached — but No Lakeville Carrier Names This Township
National Weather Service, Northern Indiana blizzard retrospective, 2026
The storm is fully documented; a Lakeville snowmobile part in it is not. The Great Blizzard of 26–27 January 1978 closed the region whole: the National Weather Service's northern Indiana retrospective records the winter of…