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#166 The opening test, answered first: no designated, groomed snowmobile trail touches this town

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No. Run at town frame against the two instruments that define a designated trail in Indiana — the Indiana DNR's cooperative trail system and the state association's register — the test returns negative for the Town of Walkerton and for Lincoln Township whole: no DNR-cooperative trail, and no association-listed club trail, enters the township on any current map or list reached. The county does have a designated, groomed trail — the Buffalo Run, 68 miles, maintained by the Michiana Trail Riders Coalition and funded through the DNR — and its published course, read road by road off the DNR's own trail map (last updated 8 January 2026), runs through the county's north and west tiers, from the Michigan state line past New Carlisle to a southern end in the Crumstown–North Liberty country. Every place-name on that map stands north of Lincoln Township. The trail is the county's; it is not this town's, and nothing in this section borrows it as the town's. What a Walkerton snowmobiler has, in law, is what the DNR's snowmobiling page gives every Hoosier: riding on private property with the landowner's permission, and on country roads in counties that allow it by ordinance — an activity, not a trail. The searches behind this answer are shown in #167; the county trail is told whole in #168; the boundary is printed in #169. Closure: DUG — the test is answered in the opening article, negative, at full search strength.

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Source: #166 The opening test, answered first: no designated, groomed snowmobile trail touches this town, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/walkerton/snowmobile-trails/166-the-opening-test-answered-first-no-designated-groomed/