The Story of Osceola, segment by segment: Niles to Cedar Street — and the gap where Osceola should be

The Story of Osceola section system is the Indiana Michigan River Valley Trail, and it can be walked segment by segment from its northern zero to the exact street where it stops short of this town. From the north: the Michigan section, 5.3 miles, from Niles, Michigan, to the state line, completed in its last township section in 2019. The LaSalle Trail, 3.5 miles, from the state line south through Roseland to the Darden Road country (item 7: an interurban corridor). The Riverside Trail, 3.4 miles on TrailLink's count, along the river's west bank from Darden Road and Angela Boulevard south past Pinhook Park. The East Bank Trail, 1.7 miles, from Angela Boulevard past the East Race to Howard Park. The West Bank Walkway, 0.6 mile, across the river downtown. The Northside Trail, 3.0 miles, from Howard Park east along the river to Logan Street in Mishawaka. Then the Mishawaka Riverwalk itself: a both-banks loop from Logan Street through Battell Park, Central Park, Kamm Island and Beutter Riverfront Park, closing east at Cedar Street and Marvin's Garden since October 2023 — 2.6 miles on TrailLink's count, "about 3.5 miles" on its builder's, printed unreconciled in item 4. Two connectors stand off the Story of Osceola section: the SR 933 Trail on the river's north side, which the Coal Line Trail joined in 2024, and the Link Trail, 1.5 miles from downtown South Bend to Notre Dame Avenue at Angela, opened late October 2024. And there the system ends. East of Cedar Street there is no trail: not along the river through Penn Township, not on the Lincolnway, not into Osceola. The paved system's eastern terminus stands in Mishawaka, and the roughly four miles of riverbank between that terminus and this town — the whole of Osceola's river frontage — carry no designated segment at all. That absence, tested segment by segment against the county parks record, the MACOG Crossway Trails inventory and TrailLink as cross-check, is the Osceola reach of the Story of Osceola section system.

Sources: TrailLink / Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, Indiana Michigan River Valley Trail segment records (Michigan section 5.3; LaSalle 3.5; Riverside 3.4; East Bank 1.7; Northside 3.0; West Bank 0.6; Mishawaka Riverwalk 2.6), read November 2026 as named cross-check against the maintainers' publications; Larson-Danielson Construction, October 2023 (Riverwalk "loops about 3.5 miles," Logan Street to Cedar Street); Indiana Michigan River Valley Trail celebration program, 9 November 2019 (continuous Mishawaka–Niles trail); University of Notre Dame / City of South Bend, Link Trail record (1.5 miles; opened late October 2024; ribbon cutting 24 April 2025); MACOG Crossway Trails inventory (no segment in Penn Township). Rights basis: published trail records; no image pulled.