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Osceola's walking does not end at its own thin roster; it borrows a ring, and the ring is told here park by park, county ground printed as county wherever it is the county's. Rum Village Park, South Bend's: 160 acres of designated natural woodland on the city's south side, three miles of named hiking trails (Beech, Spicebush, Red Oak, Shagbark, Ironwood, Old Tree) through beech-maple forest, a nature center standing since 1974 on the directory record, and the mountain-bike Annex across Gertrude Street. Potawatomi Park, South Bend's: the riverfront park and zoo ground on the Mishawaka Avenue corridor, its paths part of the city's east-side walking, at the ring's inner edge. Pinhook Park, South Bend's: a lagoon park on the river's west bank where the Riverside Trail passes, home of the Native Tree Trail (item 7). St. Patrick's County Park, the county's: 398 acres of wooded trail ground and river frontage on the county's north side, the system's largest walking park. Bendix Woods County Park, the county's: 195 acres at New Carlisle, holding a 27-acre state-dedicated nature preserve, the Studebaker pine planting that spells its maker's name to airplanes, and the county's second-highest point. Spicer Lake Nature Preserve, the county's: 196 acres on the LaPorte county line, two kettle lakes, a handicap-access boardwalk to the lake edge. Lydick Bog Nature Preserve, the Shirley Heinze Land Trust's (item 2): 271 acres as expanded in May 2026, one of Indiana's last sphagnum bogs, its trail system extended with the expansion. Ferrettie/Baugo Creek County Park, the county's: this ground's own, 214 acres, told whole in the banked leg and not re-told here. Nine grounds, four kinds of keeper — city, county, trust, state — and not one of them the town's: the ring is the true size of Osceola's walking country, and its ownership pattern is the same one every leg of this build keeps finding.
Sources: South Bend Venues Parks & Arts, Rum Village Park record and master plan (160 acres; three miles of hiking trails; named trails; nature center) and Pinhook Park record; St. Joseph County Parks system publications (St. Patrick's 398 acres; Bendix Woods 195 acres with 27-acre dedicated preserve; Ferrettie/Baugo Creek 214 acres); Indiana DNR Nature Preserve directory, Spicer Lake (196 acres; St. Joseph County Parks ownership; boardwalk); Shirley Heinze Land Trust / DNR, Lydick Bog expansion, May 2026 (271 acres); Indiana DNR, Potato Creek State Park (3,840 acres; Worster Lake 327 acres; trails 1–6, Peppermint Loop, Friends Wetland Trail), with the park's dedication as a recreation area on 6 June 1977. Rights basis: published agency facts; no image pulled.