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November 2026
The verdict still stands in the present tense: there is no zoo in Mishawaka today. The city's parks keep no animals. The Humane Society of St. Joseph County's shelter stands on Grape Road; taking in strays and placing adoptions is animal welfare, not a zoo, and it is not printed as one. The only animals kept for the public anywhere in the city are seasonal and small, and attested at visitors' strength only: guests at Legend Park, the fall scream park on McKinley Highway, describe a petting zoo among its family attractions — the park's own published list of attractions, read in November 2026, does not name one, and the item is carried at the visitors' strength and no stronger. The region's zoo remains where it has stood since 1921: across the line in South Bend, a few miles west, exactly where the streetcars were already taking Mishawaka in 1915.
Principal sources
- City of Mishawaka and Legend Park (14130 McKinley Highway) — the parks' own sites, read November 2026; visitor accounts of the Legend Park petting zoo.
- Humane Society of St. Joseph County, 2506 Grape Road, Mishawaka.