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As of November 2026, the walking ground that serves Walkerton is held by four kinds of hands, and the town's own hand holds the least of it. The State of Indiana holds the largest pieces: Potato Creek State Park (DNR Division of State Parks; nearly 4,000 acres, a full numbered trail system) and the Kankakee Fish & Wildlife Area (DNR Division of Fish & Wildlife; 4,199 acres on its property page, 4,554 on its map, unmerged — habitat ground with mowed lanes, no designated trails), with Koontz Lake managed from the Kankakee office, and Chamberlain Lake owned by the DNR's Division of Nature Preserves. St. Joseph County Parks holds the county system — Bendix Woods, St. Patrick's, Spicer Lake, Ferrettie/Baugo Creek, the LaSalle Trail, Crone, the Jasinski Launch — printing 33+ miles of hiking trails on its own infographic, jointly managing Chamberlain Lake's trail for the DNR, and holding no unit in Lincoln Township (banked negative, Parks). The Shirley Heinze Land Trust holds the county's one trust preserve, Lydick Bog — 176.46 acres on the DNR sheet, expanded by 93 easement acres, its trails expanded in 2026 — within a trust-wide total printed at approximately 4,000 acres (trust, 2026) against 4,186 (Land Trust Alliance), unmerged. The City of South Bend holds Rum Village, Potawatomi, and Pinhook. And the Town of Walkerton holds its six parks and, in the walking column, Scarbrough's unnamed paths. Place Trail Marsh, the township's one large ground, still stands with its holder unprinted — DNR designation in the state registers of 2021/2023, no current DNR program list naming it (see #160), no county unit list carrying it. That distribution — state, county, trust, city, town, in that order of size — is the preserve system as it stands. Closure: MIXED — the holders and their totals are dug as of November 2026; Place Trail Marsh's holder remains the open item, settlers as named at GAP-W7-P6.
Sources: Indiana DNR (Potato Creek; Kankakee FWA page and map; nature-preserve list); St. Joseph County Parks infographic and unit list (33+ miles hiking trails; no Lincoln Township unit); Shirley Heinze Land Trust, 2026 (Lydick Bog expansion) and Land Trust Alliance directory; South Bend Venues Parks & Arts park pages; Walkerton Parks Department.