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Walkerton's exclusion is defined by a ring of real trails on every side but its own. East, in Elkhart County: the Miami Trail, 61 miles on the program manual's table, kept by the Elkhart County Snowmobile Club, running through the Bristol–Goshen–Middlebury–Millersburg country. Northeast, in Steuben County: the Potawatomi Trail, 32 miles on its club's carrier (the Potawatomi Snowmobile Club, which added some 18 miles to an original 14 beginning in 2014) — a public trail expressly not associated with the DNR, the one northern-tier trail outside the cooperative system. North, across the state line: Michigan's designated system begins in Berrien County — the Michigan DNR's county map (updated 18 September 2026) draws its LP 59, 590, and 182 trail groupings through the Niles, Buchanan, Galien, Three Oaks, and Coloma country, the southernmost designated snowmobile ground in Michigan, a county away from Walkerton and never reaching the line at this longitude on the Indiana side, where the Buffalo Run's north end simply stops at State Line Road. South and southeast, the system's other two cooperative trails: the Heritage Trail, 34 miles in Allen County, kept by the Hoagland Blizzard Blazers; and the Salamonie Trail on the DNR's Salamonie Lake property in Huntington and Wabash counties — 32 miles in the program manual's budget table against 40 miles on secondary carriers, printed unreconciled. Between the Miami to the east, the Buffalo Run to the north, and the Michigan trails above them, the southwest corner of St. Joseph County is the gap in the northern tier — and Walkerton sits in the middle of the gap. Closure: DUG — the neighboring systems are named with their carriers, and the exclusion is geographic, not rhetorical.
Sources: Indiana DNR, Snowmobile Trails Program Manual 2025–2027 (Miami 61 mi; Heritage 34 mi; Salamonie 32 mi — budget table); Treadworld (Potawatomi Trail, 32 mi, non-DNR; Salamonie, 40 mi — secondary, unreconciled); Michigan DNR, Snowmobile Trails — Berrien County map (updated 18 Sept 2026).