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Every ground in this article is St. Joseph County Parks', the City of South Bend's, or the State of Indiana's — none is Walkerton's, and each is told as a walking ground with its trails. Rum Village Park (South Bend city): 160 acres of designated natural woodland, a nature center, and three miles of hiking trails winding through it, per the city's own park text. Potawatomi Park (South Bend city): the conservatories' garden paths inside the city's east-side park — a garden ground, its walking at garden size. Pinhook Park (South Bend city): a short paved loop (a trail app measures 1.1 km) between lake and river, carrying the Native Tree Trail (see #164) and connecting to the Riverside pedestrian trail. St. Patrick's County Park (county): nearly 400 acres at the Michigan line, approximately six miles of hiking trails on the county's 2026 trail map — named loops including the River Ridge Trail, Horsetail Trace, Manion Canyon Loop, Cabin Walk, Oak Tree Trail, and the Auten-area loops — through woods, fields, and along the St. Joseph River, with groomed cross-country ski trails in winter; across the state line it continues as Madeline Bertrand Park, a Michigan county park, printed as Michigan's. Bendix Woods County Park (county): over four miles of rolling hiking trails (Big Tree Trail, 0.35 mi; Central Trail; Deneve Wildlife Loop, 0.5 mi, among the named on its 2026 map) through the beech-maple nature preserve and past the Studebaker pine planting, beside its separate mountain-bike system. Spicer Lake Nature Preserve (county): approximately four miles of trails at the preserve — the Wetland–Woodland–Lancaster loop (1.5 miles on the visitor carriers), the Glacier Flats and Old Field trails, a half-mile boardwalk — around two glacial kettle lakes, 196 acres on the DNR preserve sheet. Ferrettie/Baugo Creek County Park (county): 214 acres at Osceola, opened 1987, nearly three miles of trails along Baugo Creek — Portage Trail 1.1 mi, Palisades Trail 0.8 mi, Portage Loop 0.1 mi on the county's own trail map. Chamberlain Lake Nature Preserve (DNR-owned, county-managed): 83 acres, a 1.5-mile loop trail to a lake observation deck, the county champion red maple among its oaks, its canopy re-made by the October 2001 tornado. Crone Restoration Area and the Jasinski Launch (county): carried at their sizes in #161. The LaSalle Trail (county): a paved walking corridor as much as a bike one, 3.5 miles (see the Bike addendum, #148). And Potato Creek State Park (state), absent from the banked set entirely and told here individually: a DNR park of nearly 4,000 acres on State Road 4 by North Liberty, around 327-acre Worster Lake, whose trail system is six numbered hiking trails — Trail 1 (2.2 mi, moderate, skirting the lake), Trail 2 (2.0 mi, rugged, to the park's highest point), Trail 3 (1.0 mi, moderate, the spring-wildflower ridge), Trail 4 (2.5 mi, moderate, the stream and old farm sites), Trail 5 (1.0 mi, easy, old fields and a wetland deck), Trail 6 (0.5 mi, easy, wetland loop) — plus the Peppermint Loop (0.9 mi, easy, on old Peppermint Road) and the Friends Wetland Trail (0.75 mi, easy), 9.2 trail-miles on the visitor authority's arithmetic, beside its paved bike trail and mountain-bike trail (Bike addendum). Closure: DUG — the ring is told ground by ground at county/state frame on the maintainers' own listings.
Sources: South Bend Venues Parks & Arts (Rum Village; Potawatomi; Pinhook); St. Joseph County Parks trail maps and park sheets, 2026 and Five Year Master Plan 2019–2023 (St. Patrick's ~6 mi; Bendix Woods; Spicer Lake; Ferrettie/Baugo — Portage Trail 1.1 mi; Chamberlain Lake 1.5 mi, 83 acres, DNR-owned/SJCP-managed); Indiana DNR, Spicer Lake preserve sheet (196 acres) and Potato Creek property page (Trails 1–6, Peppermint Loop, Friends Wetland Trail, with distances); Visit South Bend Mishawaka (Potato Creek hiking total, 9.2 mi).