The System as It Stands

November 2026

November 2026: As this section is written, the system's building is nearly done and its growing edge has moved to the ends. In the city: The Link stands open since the fall of 2024, its ribbon cut in April 2025; the Coal Line Trail stands complete from Lincoln Way West to SR 933, its third phase — College Street to the MLK Dream Center — designed and funded, with construction set for spring 2027 on the city's current word; the Ewing Trail, a W. Ewing Avenue reconstruction and trail from Olive Street to Gertrude Street at Rum Village's door, stands in preliminary engineering on a proposal dated 12 November 2025; Rum Village's master plan, which will set that park's trail future, is in public process with concepts expected in 2026.

On the corridor: the River Valley Trail stands connected at 24 miles by its friends group's count, its next mile — north of Plym Park toward Pucker Street — cleared in January 2026 for construction expected late in 2026 or early in 2027, and the Berrien Springs extension and the Lake Chapin bridge beyond it in development. In the county parks: Lydick Bog's expansion opened in May 2026 with its new mile of trail; the county's brochures and trail maps stand in current editions dated 2026. On the snow: the Buffalo Run's season opens, as every year, on December 1, if the snow comes and the club posts it open. The gaps stand where this section has named them: the Northside Trail's construction dates, the LaSalle Trail's first year, the Buffalo Run's designation year and its name's origin, and two names — a Dunes Kankakee Trail and a Central City Trail — that circulate in the national trail database for this city with no maintaining body's publication behind them, and are therefore named here as unverified and counted nowhere.

Sources:

1. The articles above, and their sources, as of November 2026 (the Link, Coal Line, and Ewing Trail items; the Rum Village plan; the River Valley Trail's extension status; the Lydick Bog expansion; the county parks' 2026 editions; the snowmobile season's December 1 opening).