Scarbrough Park: the main park — forty acres, four diamonds, and a name in two spellings

2026 (establishment not found)

Scarbrough Park is the system's working ground: forty acres at the Park Office, on the department's own description — hiking trails, a large playground, a splash pad with over ten water features, pavilions, four ball diamonds with two batting cages, an observation area with pergola, sand volleyball courts, a concession stand, and bathrooms. The four diamonds are "home to our WJL Baseball and Softball," the town's youth leagues, whose initials no source reached expands and which are not expanded here. The department's address is the park's: 71636 Walkerton Trail, Walkerton, IN 46574, telephone +1 574-586-3638, the Park Office sitting at the ground. The park's name prints in conflict, both spellings carried and neither merged: the department's own site and its page address use "Scarbrough," one 'o' short; Google and directory listings, and Visit South Bend's regional splash-pad roundup, title the same park at the same address "Scarborough Park." The naming record was tested at the checklist's direction — a park whose name reads as a person's gets the test — and returned none: no record naming a Scarbrough or Scarborough as the park's namesake was found, no person is asserted for the name, and no establishment date for the ground was found in any source reached.

Sources

1. Walkerton Parks Department, Scarbrough Park page and home page, walkertonparks.com (acreage, facilities, WJL, Park Office).
2. Directory/aggregator listings (71636 Walkerton Trail; coordinates) and Visit South Bend, "Where to Find Pools and Splash Pads Near South Bend" ("Scarborough Park") — the spelling conflict's second side.
3. Naming-record and establishment searches for Scarbrough Park: none found, printed as tested negatives.
4. Census geocoder point test, published coordinates: Walkerton town, Lincoln Township, 11 November 2026.