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No two keepers of this system count it alike, and the leg prints the counts as they stand. TrailLink's segment-by-segment sum for the Indiana Michigan River Valley Trail is 17 miles of paved multi-use trail, Niles to Mishawaka. The trail's own celebration, on 9 November 2019, marked "34 miles of trail connecting Mishawaka, South Bend, and Niles" — a figure that counts both banks, connectors and the Michigan build-out the segment sum treats separately. South Bend's 2009 release put that city's trail system alone at "more than 11 miles," inside a planned bicycle network of "more than 88 miles of proposed bicycle lanes, routes and multipurpose paths." The regional keeper counts widest of all: MACOG's Crossway Trails condition survey of 2023–24 collected surface readings over more than 120 miles of the network across St. Joseph, Elkhart, Marshall and Kosciusko counties. Planned against connected: if the Mishawaka-to-Elkhart gap is built, MACOG and the Greenways Foundation put the uninterrupted network at approximately 58 miles. Each figure above is printed with its carrier and its year, as the checklist orders; none is averaged into another, and the Osceola share of every one of them is the same number — zero miles, in every counting.
Sources: TrailLink segment records (17 miles), November 2026; Indiana Michigan River Valley Trail celebration program, 9 November 2019 (34 miles); City of South Bend news release, 4 March 2009 (more than 11 city miles; more than 88 proposed network miles); Bike Michiana Coalition, MACOG Trail Condition Report summary, 26 February 2025 (over 120 Crossway miles surveyed 2023–24); Greenways Foundation / MACOG, Mishawaka to Elkhart Trail project announcement, 2 July 2024 (approximately 58 miles if completed). Rights basis: published counts, printed in conflict by design; no image pulled.