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Status: Open

County: Wells

City: Bluffton

Endpoints:
West - Main Street (SR1) at Wabash River Park
East - Ouabache State Park

Trailheads:
-parking at Starkey Nature Park
-parking at Starkey Road

Connections: connects to paved and natural trails in Ouabache State Park

Activities:
walking
biking
rollerblading

Surface:
asphalt

Length: 2.5 miles; plus another 2.5 miles of trail in Ouabache State Park

Descrption: Follows the Wabash River east of downtown to Ouabache State Park. Plenty of interesting river life as well as trail features to enjoy, including several carvings and a short covered bridge. Stogdill Rd., which connects to River Rd., also has a nice asphalt sidepath to make a loop back to the downtown area.

Manager: Bluffton Parks & Rec

Future Plans: Future extension of the Rivergreenway includes the Interurban Trail, which would extend the multi-use asphalt trail westward underneath the Main Street Bridge and then northward to Lancaster Elementary School on East Jackson Street (County Road 300N). The extension would follow a portion of the former Fort Wayne, Bluffton & Marion Traction Co. line along SR1 from downtown northward, covering about 3 miles. A new pedestrian bridge just west of the Main Street bridge, which would connect downtown to Kehoe Park, is planned as part of the trail. Bluffton's Interurban Trail would become one of a small handful of trails in Indiana and the nation built upon former electric interurban lines, which were in service between 1900 and 1940.

Also under development is a new 2-mile foot trail that will link to the west end of the greenway, cross the Wabash River over a relocated historic road bridge, and follow the north bank of the river toward Ouabache State Park, making a loop with the paved greenway on the south bank. A new or historic bridge will be placed to cross the Wabash near Stogdill Road (which also has a parallel asphalt path).

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