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At county frame, the grounds ring the city, and each stands individually. West and north: Lydick Bog, the trust preserve of the entries above, 176 acres of bog boardwalk and upland trail on US 20. St. Patrick's County Park, on the river's north reach — the county park of the manor house and the sledding hill, its river paths a local institution. Bendix Woods County Park, in the county's western woods — the beech-maple forest planted in part by the Studebaker company's proving-ground era, holding the Native Tree Trail of the interpretive entry. Spicer Lake County Park, at the county's northwest corner near New Carlisle — lake, boardwalk and woods at the glacial kettle. Ferrettie/Baugo Creek County Park, at Osceola on Baugo Creek — the county park nearest Mishawaka, on the creek that drains Penn Township's south, its grounds the creek valley's walking. South: Potato Creek State Park, the ring's giant — 3,840 acres established as a park in 1969, Worster Lake made by the dam in 1977, six square miles dedicated as the Potato Creek Recreation Area by Governor Otis R. Bowen on 6 June 1977, raised to state park in 1983, its trails circling the lake its namesake naturalist Darcy Worster campaigned into being, and holding at its east the Porter Rea Cemetery of the Huggart Settlement, the free Black farming settlement of 1834, at pointer to the peoples record. Inside the ring, South Bend's city grounds — Rum Village's woods and Pinhook's lagoon — stand at boundary size. The ring prints whole because it is the city's true hiking geography: Mishawaka's residents' big walking has always been a short drive in any direction, and the grounds are county, state and trust grounds — the city itself kept the river.