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Unlike the Fort Wayne template, no consortium built this system and no merger consolidated it; it accreted city by city, and its succession is a list of separate keepers. The builders and maintainers, segment by segment, are public bodies: South Bend Venues Parks & Arts for the East Bank, Riverside, Northside, West Bank, Coal Line and Link trails; the City of Mishawaka's parks department for the Riverwalk; St. Joseph County Parks for the LaSalle Trail corridor, which stands on its property roster; and the Niles-side governments and the Southwest Michigan Planning Commission for the Michigan section. Over them sits one regional umbrella, and it is a government's: Crossway Trails, the regional network name devised under the auspices of the Michiana Area Council of Governments, which inventories and condition-surveys the whole (item 4). The advocacy succession runs beside the building, not through it: Bike to Work Week, founded in 2006 by a small group of advocates, preceded the Bike Michiana Coalition, formed in 2008 as a nonprofit to coordinate the area's bicycle groups and speak on safety and advocacy; the Michiana Bicycle Association rides recreationally alongside both; and the Northern Indiana Mountain Bike Association builds and keeps the singletrack (items 7 and 9). No trail organization of any of these kinds is seated in Osceola or Penn Township in any record reached, and no Osceola body has ever held a segment: the town's absence from the system is organizational as well as paved.
Sources: Bike Michiana Coalition, published history and resources pages (Bike to Work Week founded 2006; Coalition formed 2008; Crossway Trails as MACOG's umbrella; Michiana Bicycle Association), read November 2026; St. Joseph County Parks system infographic and master-plan property roster (LaSalle Trail as county property 7); City of South Bend and City of Mishawaka trail publications (maintainer of record by segment). Rights basis: published organizational facts; no image pulled.