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#149 The accounting, in its conflicting counts, never averaged

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No mileage accounting of any kind — planned, connected, or named — is published for a Walkerton trail system, because there is no published system to account; the ring's figures conflict carrier by carrier and print unmerged. The counts, each on its carrier: Potato Creek's mountain-bike trail is 7.4 miles on the DNR property page, 7.5 miles in the DNR's own park brochure (© 05/2026), 7.7 miles on Visit South Bend Mishawaka's biking guide, and 6.6 miles in the park's encyclopaedia summary and Visit South Bend's park guide — four figures, four carriers, none reconciled here. The LaSalle Trail is 3.5 miles on the county's listing for its Indiana length, while route guides that run it on into Michigan print 6.4 miles one-way for LaSalle-plus-River-Valley combined. The River Valley Trail whole is "a 17-mile trail connecting Mishawaka to Niles" on the Michiana bike-map carrier, a "34-mile recreation trail between Niles and Mishawaka" in the South Bend Tribune of 10 August 2014 (the project's completed-plus-planned length as then stated), and 24 miles of presently connected trail on the Friends of Berrien County Trails' 2026 project page — planned, projected, and connected figures that are three different quantities and are printed as three. For the town itself the accounting is a row of zeros that are findings, not blanks: planned miles published, none; connected miles published, none; named paved miles published, none. Closure: MIXED — the ring's conflicting counts are dug and printed unmerged; the town row is a published-nothing, settler the Parks Department's own publications, which print no figure to conflict.

Sources: Indiana DNR, Potato Creek property page (7.4 mi) and Potato Creek trail brochure, © 05/2026 (7.5 mi); Visit South Bend Mishawaka, biking guide (7.7 mi) and Potato Creek guide (6.6 mi); St. Joseph County Parks, LaSalle Trail (3.5 mi); Michiana bicycle map (River Valley Trail, 17 miles); South Bend Tribune, 10 Aug 2014, via Southwest Michigan Planning Commission (34 miles); Friends of Berrien County Trails (24 miles connected, 2026).

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Source: #149 The accounting, in its conflicting counts, never averaged, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/walkerton/bike-trails/149-the-accounting-in-its-conflicting-counts-never-averaged/