The modern position, as of November 2026: a live system, thinly published

item 8 — the county trail and its club in their current published state, honestly thin where thin

As of November 2026 the Buffalo Run is a going concern on paper and a quiet one in public: the Indiana DNR's trail map for the system was last updated 8 January 2026 and still publishes the trail whole — 68 miles, maintained by the Michiana Trail Riders Coalition, funded through the DNR, open December 1 to March 31 when posted — and the Department's Snowmobile Trails Program Manual 2025–2027 carries the coalition under contract for the coming seasons at the standard rates (65 dollars per mile; the lease and preconstruction terms of the mechanism article). The Indiana Snowmobilers Association's trails page is live with its trail-report links for the system, Buffalo Run included. Registration stands where the code puts it: 30 dollars for three years, the fee feeding the fund the trails are paid from. Beyond that, the published state thins, and the article prints the thinness rather than filling it: no current Indiana snowmobile registration count stands in the DNR or association sources read — the state's published trail literature gives the system's miles and money, not its machine count — and the Michiana Trail Riders Coalition's own current state could not be read beyond the DNR's and the association's lines about it: the club's own web address is carried on the DNR map, but its own published pages returned no readable record, so the club prints at its contracting parties' strength — contracted, named, and maintaining the county's trail into the 2026–27 season — and no membership, fleet or grooming state is claimed for it. No new trail, no reroute and no mileage change for Olive Township ground stands in any source read; the township's snowmobile position in November 2026 is the position the map of January 2026 draws: one leased, groomed, state-funded trail crossing its west side each winter, if the snow and the posting allow.

Sources:

1. Indiana DNR, Buffalo Run Snowmobile Trail map (last updated 1/8/2026) — the trail published whole and current: 68 miles, MTRC-maintained, DNR-funded, the December 1–March 31 posted season.
2. Indiana DNR, Snowmobile Trails Program Manual 2025–2027 — the Buffalo Run club contract and rates for the 2025–2027 biennium, including the 2026–2027 season.
3. Indiana Snowmobilers Association (indianasnowmobilers.com), Trails — the live trails page and trail-report links, read November 2026.
4. Indiana Code 9-18.1-14-4 (current as of 1 January 2026) — the $30, three-year registration.
5. Searches run November 2026 for a published Indiana registration count and for the coalition's own current published state (gomtrc.com as carried on the DNR map) — no readable record reached; printed as the thinness above.