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Around the Story of Osceola section, the county's wheeled ground stands in four areas, and this township is not one of them. North: the LaSalle corridor and the SR 933 Trail, the county parks system's own bike-pedestrian property. South-west: Potato Creek State Park, with a 3.3-mile paved bicycle trail on the DNR's trail list (3.2 on the park's encyclopedia entry — printed in conflict) and a separate mountain-bike trail, 7.4 miles on the DNR's list (6.6 on the same entry — in conflict), built through the park's partnership with the Northern Indiana Mountain Bike Association. West: Bendix Woods County Park, which carries a designated mountain-bike trail on the county parks system's own infographic, and Rum Village Park in South Bend, whose Annex holds over five miles of NIMBA-built mountain-bike trails in beginner, intermediate and advanced lines, beside the park's three miles of hiking paths. East, at boundary size: Elkhart County's network — the Pumpkinvine and Maple City Greenway, 71 miles of multi-use path county-wide by 2024 on the Community Foundation's report — which the planned Mishawaka-to-Elkhart trail would join to this system. In Penn Township the area-by-area roster is empty: no connector, no outlying path, and no mountain-bike designation touches the township in the county inventory; Ferrettie/Baugo Creek's trails are designated hiking trails, and the county's mountain-bike ground stands in its western and southern parks. NIMBA is the mountain-bike system's keeper throughout: a volunteer association building singletrack under land-manager partnership, the dirt counterpart to the cities' paved system.
Sources: Indiana DNR, Potato Creek State Park trail list (paved bicycle trail 3.3 miles; mountain bike trail 7.4 miles; NIMBA partnership), read November 2026, with the park's encyclopedia entry (3.2 and 6.6 miles) printed in conflict; South Bend Venues Parks & Arts, Rum Village Park record (over five miles of mountain-bike trails at the Annex; three miles of hiking trails; 160 acres); St. Joseph County Parks system infographic (mountain-bike trail at Bendix Woods; 33+ miles of hiking trails system-wide; no Penn Township bike property); Community Foundation of Elkhart County 2024 annual report via Inspiring Good (71 county miles). Rights basis: published inventories, conflicts printed; no image pulled.