The town parks' dirt trails, park by park: three parks, no named trail

item 5 — Memorial Park, Bourissa Hills Park and Colfax Park, separated from the county system

The town's own parks are festival and neighbourhood ground, and their trail record prints park by park at its true, thin size: Memorial Park is the town's festive ground — Hometown Days fills it each July, the farmers' market sits in it on Saturdays from June through September, the Wiffle Ball championship's fields stand on and around it, and a splash pad joined its equipment in the town's 2022 projects — and no named dirt trail, nature trail or walking loop for it stands in the town publications, park-board record or park pages reached; the park is walked, constantly, but the record names no trail in it. Bourissa Hills Park, at the end of South Meridian Street past the Wiffle Kingdom, carries the town's one routed recreation course: the Bourissa Hills Disc Golf Course, established in 2013 in the course directory's record, nine holes through woods, a typical round covering approximately 0.7 miles — a disc-golf course, printed as itself, not as a hiking trail; a course description's passing phrase about the course being surrounded by "woods, trails, and more trees" is the nearest any source reached comes to a trail at Bourissa Hills, and no named or mapped trail for the park stands in the town or county record read. Colfax Park, the small lot at Cherry and Front streets dedicated in June 2026, is a finished ornamental park in the South Bend Tribune's dedication account — a gazebo, the salvaged church bell, benches and an educational kiosk on the life of Schuyler Colfax — with no trail of any kind in its published description; a lot of that size carries none. The item therefore closes as a searched negative at town frame: the Town of New Carlisle's three parks hold no named dirt trail in the record reached, and the township's walking ground remains what the Recreation file banked — the county's two parks, in the county's system, told in the county articles of this cluster.

Sources:

1. The banked this history town-parks article — the three parks, their documented uses and holders, as of November 2026.
2. Indiana Municipal Electric Association, June 2022 newsletter (Town of New Carlisle current projects) — the splash pad built in Memorial Park.
3. UDisc Disc Golf Course Directory, Bourissa Hills Disc Golf Course — established 2013; 9 holes; a round of approximately 0.7 miles; Town of New Carlisle Park Board as the course's listed body.
4. The Championship (hometowncup.com), Getting Here — the Bourissa Hills lot at the end of South Meridian Street, past the Wiffle Kingdom.
5. South Bend Tribune, 28 June 2026, "New Carlisle dedicates park to Schuyler Colfax" — Colfax Park at Cherry and Front streets: gazebo, church bell, benches, educational kiosk; no trail in the account.
6. Searches run November 2026 of town park publications, park-board minutes and park pages for a named trail in any of the three parks — none reached; printed as the searched negative above.