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The system walked from its west bookend to its east. Kate's Garden and Lincoln Park anchor the west end, joined in the final west phase of 2009. East of them the course reaches Kamm Island — the island John Kamm's brewery ground made — tied to the bank it faces by three footbridges, in place by 2003. Robert C. Beutter Riverfront Park, opened 2004 on the old Uniroyal riverfront, is the loop's centerpiece ground: the river race with its overlook weirs, the gardens, the Shards sculpture, and since 2020 the Ball Band Biergarten at its Ironworks edge. The cable-stay pedestrian bridge — visitors call it the "Mishawaka Suspension bridge," and the conflict between the visitor name and the structure's kind stands as the trails section leaves it — closed the north-side gap in 2008, tying Beutter's ground to Battell Park, the city's oldest park ground on the north bank. Central Park follows east, its full length walked by the 2015 extension, which carried the path past the Center for Hospice Care's Mishawaka campus to Cedar Street. Merrifield Park is the next ground east — Shiojiri Garden within it, Castle Manor on its edge — and the walk's extension through Merrifield was awarded by the city, working through the Indiana Department of Transportation and the Michiana Area Council of Governments, to Rieth-Riley Construction of South Bend. Eberhart-Petro Golf Course's river reach carries the course toward its east end, where the closing stage stands at builder strength in the trails section: Larson-Danielson Construction, with DLZ as designer, built the east extension from Race Street to Cedar Street from June 2022, $4 million on the builder's statement, dedicated 5 October 2023 at the new Marvin's Garden — the loop's east bookend, named for Coach Marvin Wood. With that dedication the Logan-to-Cedar course stood complete: one spine, both banks, the bridges as its joints, every named segment standing in the parks record at its own size.