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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 Association states it plainly, and the statute carries it — registration at $30 under IC 9-18.1-14-4, the fee deposited in the off-road vehicle and snowmobile fund under IC 14-16-1-30, registration valid three years and handled by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles since January 2014 (before that, by the DNR). The manual prices the work: clubs receive $65 per mile for construction and maintenance, leases run at $75 per quarter mile or $2 per acre, and since 2007 the clubs have managed the leases directly with landowners. No general tax dollar stands behind the Buffalo Run; the machine is fee, fund, club, and lease, in that order.