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St. Joseph County · Michiana Trail Riders Coalition · DNR cooperative trail
The Buffalo Run Snowmobile Trail is one of only four DNR-cooperative snowmobile trails in Indiana (with the Miami in Elkhart County, the Heritage in Allen County and the Salamonie in Wabash–Huntington), per the Indiana Snowmobile Association, and one of the state's two longest. It was developed and is groomed by the Michiana Trail Riders Coalition (MTRC), the volunteer club for the South Bend country, and funded through the Indiana DNR — the standard Indiana mechanism, in which the state supplies money and authority and a local club supplies machines, labor and landowner agreements across mostly private farmland.
Its route is a county loop system west of South Bend — the DNR's trail map runs it through the Crumstown, Primrose and Wintergreen country of the county's west side toward New Carlisle — which is why it surrounds this township's story without entering the town: the trail's world is the same farm grid, one township tier removed. The regulations the DNR map prints govern every mile: trails are open December 1 to March 31 only when posted open, snowmobiles must be registered, and riders must stay on the marked trail.