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- About Us
- Annual Dinner
- Trail Availability
- Trail Access
- Trail Overview
- Bicycle Maps
- History
- Newsletters
- Membership Privilege
- About the Ride
- When & Where
- Ride Rules
- Friday Dinner Ride
- GPS Files
- 2011 T-Shirt
- Ride Registration
- Generous SAGs
- Lodging
Six local bicycle shops give Friends members discounts on designated merchandize and/or services.
Download a brochure with a map of the Pumpkinvine Trail and connected trails in pdf format.
Friends are happy to provide a speaker for any group interested in learning more about the Pumpkinvine Nature Trail project. Contact us by email.
Friends of the Pumpkinvine Nature Trail
Friends of the Pumpkinvine Nature Trail, Inc. purchased the Pumpkinvine railroad corridor in 1993 and are donating the land to local park departments
when design and engineering are ready for trail construction.
The Pumpkinvine Nature Trail is connected to the Maple City Greenway in Goshen and will be connected to the MapleHeart Trail by Autumn 2011. You can see from the Trail Availability page on this website that three sections of the Pumpkinvine Nature Trail plus the MapleHeart Trail are already open for public use.
Friends' role in the project is changing as the project progresses. Currently, Friends still own a few sections of the abandonded railroad corridor which they continue to maintain. Additional responsibilities of Friends are:
- Marketing, promotion and fundraising for the trail.
- Maintain this website.
- Provide grant funding for projects, materials, amenities, etc.
- Coordinate volunteers.
Trail managing agencies
The managing agencies for the MapleHeart Trail, the Maple City Greenway and the Pumpkinvine Nature Trail are presented below:
Goshen Parks and Recreation
www.ci.goshen.in.us parksrecreation@goshencity.com
Maple City Greenway
Fifth St. to County Road 28
Elkhart County Parks
www.elkhartcountyparks.org info@elkhartcountyparks.org
MapleHeart Trail
County Road 28 to the tunnel at U.S. 20
York Drive in Middlebury to the Elkhart/LaGrange County Line
Middlebury Parks and Recreation
www.middleburyin.org parks@middlebury.com
Tunnel at U.S. 20 to York Dr.
Shipshewana Parks Department
www.shipshewana.org/parks.php
Elkhart/LaGrange County line to County Road 850 near Shipshewana
The responsibilities of the managing agencies are:
- Review and approval of events along the trail.
- Implementation and enforcement of trail rules and regulations.
- Maintenance of the trail and trail amenities.
- Maintain adequate liability insurance.
- Volunteer recruitment.
Pumpkinvine Advisory Committee
The managing agencies above and Friends of the Pumpkinvine Nature Trail have formed an oversight committee , the Pumpkinvine Advisory Committee, to carryout the following objectives:
- Build consensus on how the trails will be managed and maintained.
- Provide an outlet for communication and evaluation of issues related to the trails.
- Develop consistent approaches and policies for management and maintenance of the trails.
- Identify needed and available resources to manage and maintain the trails.
- Advise and recommend approaches to managing and maintaining the trails.
- Review requests for funding and provide recommendations to the Friends of the Pumpkinvine Nature Trail for funding trail projects.
Trail Volunteer Opportunities
The Pumpkinvine Advisory Committee is developing a volunteer program for interested parties to help with: 1) monitoring activities on the trail, 2) routine trail maintenance and 3) occasional work such as cleaning up storm damage and special trail enhancement projects.
For more information about volunteering with the Elkhart County Parks Department or to receive a volunteer application - call the administrative office at 535-6458.
