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The Buffalo Run Snowmobile Trail is one of the Indiana DNR's four cooperative trails, the only one in St. Joseph County, and the whole of this county's designated snowmobiling. Its club is the Michiana Trail Riders Coalition, Inc. (MTRC), which maintains it with DNR funding: founded in 1983 as the South Bend Snowmobiles Club, it rode seventeen years under that name before renaming itself in 2000, as its members took up summer ATV riding and the snow-only name stopped fitting; it is a 501(c)(3) family club with its own clubhouse on Rice Road, west of South Bend, meeting the third Friday of the month. The route, on the DNR's current map, is a western-county network: from the Michigan state line south through the New Carlisle and Crumstown country, past Bendix Woods County Park and South Bend's far western edge, crossing U.S. 20 and State Road 2 at marked high-traffic crossings; its signed trailhead stands at American Legion Post 297, 486 E. Michigan Street, New Carlisle. The club's own summary runs it "from the State Line to Highway #23." And its mileage prints here as its keepers publish it, in conflict, never averaged: 68 miles (Indiana DNR, Buffalo Run trail map, updated 8 January 2026, and the DNR-derived state listings); 63 miles (Indiana Snowmobilers Association, trails page); 70 miles (the Michiana Trail Riders Coalition's own About page: "the 70 mile long Buffalo Run Snowmobile Trail"). Three figures, three carriers, one trail; the leg resolves none of them. What none of the figures measures is any mile in Penn Township: by every carrier's geography, the trail is a western-county system entire.
Sources: Indiana DNR, Buffalo Run Snowmobile Trail map, updated 8 January 2026 (68 miles; MTRC maintained; DNR funded; trailhead at American Legion Post 297, New Carlisle; route roads and crossings as mapped); Indiana Snowmobilers Association, trails page (Buffalo Run, 63 miles, "west of South Bend in St. Joseph County"); Michiana Trail Riders Coalition, About page (established 1983 as the South Bend Snowmobiles Club; renamed 2000; clubhouse on Rice Road; "the 70 mile long Buffalo Run Snowmobile Trail… from the State Line to Highway #23"). The 68/63/70 conflict is printed whole by design. Rights basis: published agency, association and club facts; no image pulled.