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The west bank's teaching trail
The teaching trail: Pinhook Park's trail teaches the trees. Pinhook, the city park on the river's west bank where the Riverside Trail passes, carries the Pinhook Park Native Tree Trail: a signed walking trail on which the park department has planted and labeled native Indiana trees — nearly a hundred of them, each with educational signage naming the species and its role — built as a public teaching collection. The department runs the trail as a sponsorship program as well as a path: its Tree Trail pages offer each tree for adoption at a $500 donation, the sponsor's name carried on the tree's signage. The park's paved loop and the tree trail together make Pinhook the one place in the city's system where the trail's subject is the ground it crosses, species by species. The trail's individual tree pages, published by the department tree by tree, are its own catalogue.
Sources:
- South Bend Venues Parks & Arts, Pinhook Park Native Tree Trail pages, sbvpa.org/treetrail (the trail, its educational signage and purpose, the adopt-a-tree sponsorship and its $500 figure, the species pages).