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Recreation & the Outdoors · two town parks, and two county parks that outsize the town
New Carlisle's outdoor estate is mostly not its own: the town holds two small parks of its own and plays its championship on one of them, while a few miles south, and up on the state line, stand two county parks — a proving ground turned forest with the world's largest living sign planted on it, and a glacial-lake preserve the birders saved — that between them give this township an outsized share of the county's documented park ground. The town parks print at their record's true, thin size; the county parks print whole, with their conflicts unmerged.
The town's own parks: Memorial Park, Bourissa Hills, and the new Colfax Park
AS OF NOVEMBER 2026 · administration by council liaison, per the Government leg
The state's own township record names the town's parks in one sentence: "Bourissa Hills and Memorial Park are in the Town of New Carlisle" — the Indiana township association's Olive Township page, which names the township's two…
Bendix Woods: the proving ground's gift, and the largest living sign
1926–2026 · 32132 Indiana 2, Olive Township; St. Joseph County Parks; the county's first county park
The county's park system begins three miles south of town, in a forest planted to spell a name: in 1926 the Studebaker Corporation developed its 800-acre proving ground on this ground, clubhouse and all — the industrial course is…
Spicer Lake Nature Preserve: the birders' purchase, on the state line
1978–2026 · 50840 County Line Road; 320 acres the county counts, 196 the state dedicates
The township's second county park exists because two couples and a bird club wanted a sanctuary: the preserve, in the county's extreme northwest corner on the Michigan line, guards two glacial kettlehole lakes — Spicer and…
The trails tests: no town system, one mountain-bike ground, and the county's snow trail at the boundary
LEGS 36/37/38 · tests run November 2026
The town itself has no trail system, and the leg prints the negative with its search: no named bike trail, greenway, rail-trail or paved path stands in the Town of New Carlisle in the record reached; the wheel-before-the-network…
The river ground: the Kankakee at the township's south edge
LEG 74 POINTER · the river whole is the Land leg's
The town's wild ground drains to a river it never sat on: the Kankakee River runs along the south of Olive Township, below Terre Coupee Prairie — its course, its marsh and its drainage are the Land leg's whole, and this section…
Ten small rows, each closed at the size its record actually reaches. Some close whole — a zoning code that dates itself, a bus era that tests negative, a trolley experiment that belongs to another city. Some close mixed, with the conflict printed unmerged and the settler named: the fire territory's two creation stories, the sisters of Terre Coupee, a club yearbook with an ambiguous Carlisle on its cover. Nothing here is compiled unchecked; a first that cannot be verified prints as unverified, and a negative prints with the instruments that were searched.
The planning line whole: zoning to comprehensive plan
BRANCH · PARKS & PLANS · THE PLANNING LINE
Lead: The town's planning line, sequenced from its own ordinance book, runs shorter than a century of town life would suggest — and its first link is the one link this history could not date. The current zoning ordinance dates…