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One of the checklist's two named trails stands fully documented at the county seat; the other stands on this ground with its name unexplained by every publication its keeper issues. The Native Tree Trail is at Pinhook Park, South Bend: an interpretive planting of nearly 100 native Indiana trees with educational signage along the park's paved loop, maintained by South Bend Venues Parks & Arts, which funds it partly by adoption — a $500 donation sponsors a named tree and puts the sponsor's name on its sign. That is an interpretive trail at full documentation: content, keeper, and mechanism all in print. The Portage Trail is at Ferrettie/Baugo Creek County Park, on this ground: a mile and a tenth of creekside path, named on the county's trail map beside the Palisades Trail, in a park whose interpretive program is otherwise explicit — the banked leg records its living-history fur-trade program, its replica voyageur canoe, and the county's printed belief that American Fur Company men passed here. The definition test the checklist orders — what "Portage" names here: a carry between Baugo Creek and the river, a fur-trade carry, a later path's name inherited — was run against the county's park page, brochure, trail map and master-plan sheet, and none of them prints a definition or any interpretation of the name. The name therefore stands as a named gap, not a silent one: settler, the St. Joseph County Parks Department's interpretive signage on the trail itself and its program files for the park, read first-hand. Until that read is made, this section prints the trail, its mileage and its keeper — and leaves its name unexplained, in the open.
Sources: South Bend Venues Parks & Arts, Pinhook Park Native Tree Trail page (nearly 100 native Indiana trees; educational signage; $500 adopt-a-tree sponsorship), read November 2026; St. Joseph County Parks, Ferrettie/Baugo Creek park page, brochure, trail map and Five Year Master Plan 2019–2023 park sheet (Portage Trail 1.1 miles; no definition of the name in any of them); Parks (the park's fur-trade interpretive program). Named settler for the Portage definition: St. Joseph County Parks on-site interpretive signage and program files. Rights basis: published facts and a printed absence; no image pulled.