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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 where riders connect near Olive Branch Road and Crumstown. Its reason is the ground itself: flat, section-line farm country under lake-effect snow, where a leased route across fields costs little and closes no road. Union Township is not on it — the route never comes south to Lakeville, and the town's relation to the trail is that its riders trailer to it. The route logic is lease logic: the DNR programme, described in the next articles, pays clubs to lease crossings from the landowners whose fields the line crosses.