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#164 Named interpretive trails: the Native Tree Trail exists, and the Portage Trail carries its definition on its own map

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Both named-trail tests pass — at county frame, on grounds serving this town's region, and neither on Walkerton's own ground. The Native Tree Trail: at Pinhook Park, South Bend, where the city park's loop runs between the lake and the river, South Bend Venues Parks & Arts launched "our area's only native tree trail" at the renovated Pinhook Park in spring 2021 — a walk of nearly 100 native Indiana trees with educational signage, built on an adopt-a-tree sponsorship of 500 dollars a tree, the sponsor's name carried on the tree's sign. The Portage Trail: at Ferrettie/Baugo Creek County Park, the county's trail map names the Portage Trail (1.1 miles, the park's longest) and the Portage Loop (0.1 mi), and prints the definition the checklist tests for, in its Trail Trivia box, verbatim in substance: "A PORTAGE was a footpath used to connect waterways" — with its companion entry, "A PALISADE was the outer fortified boundary of a trading post," for the Palisades Trail (0.8 mi). The definition is a generic one, printed for a creek-corridor park in the county's east; the region's famous portage — the St. Joseph–Kankakee portage at South Bend, a four-to-five-mile carry that the Raclin Murphy Museum's documentation calls "the only overland segment of an ancient water route between the Great Lakes region and the Gulf of Mexico" — is a different ground again, and its trail today is Portage Avenue, a street. For Walkerton's own parks, no named interpretive trail was found in the department's listings: Scarbrough's paths carry no names at all (see #162). Closure: DUG — both tests answered with their carriers; the town-level result is negative and printed as such.

Sources: South Bend Venues Parks & Arts, Pinhook Park Native Tree Trail pages (spring 2021 launch; nearly 100 native trees; $500 sponsorship); St. Joseph County Parks, Ferrettie/Baugo Creek trail map (Portage Trail 1.1 mi; Portage Loop 0.1 mi; Palisades Trail 0.8 mi; Trail Trivia definitions); Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, "The Portage Path" (four-to-five-mile St. Joseph–Kankakee portage).

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Source: #164 Named interpretive trails: the Native Tree Trail exists, and the Portage Trail carries its definition on its own map, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/walkerton/hiking-trails/164-named-interpretive-trails-the-native-tree-trail-exists/