Michiana Area Council of Governments maintains three trail usage counters on trails in Elkhart and LaGrange Counties: The Middlebury - Pumpkinvine Trail, Shipshewana - Pumpkinvine Trail and Millrace Trail in Goshen. Data for a fourth counter, Elkhart County - Pumpkinvine Trail, is also included here. This year, we’ve included trail counters on the Riverwalk in Elkhart at NIBCO Park and at Abshire Park in Goshen. The counts for pedestrians and bicyclists recorded by each counter in 2025 are analyzed in this report.

Two notes on the Abshire Park data:

The trail counter was installed in June, so these numbers are only for the second half of 2025
I found some discrepancies in the output of the data, so take this Abshire Park set with a grain of salt. I will be following up with MACOG to figure out a fix for the issue in the next few weeks.

Most trail users travel in one direction and then return so the numbers counted should be divided by two for estimating the number of people using the trails.

Data for additional MACOG counters are available at: https://macog.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/5a22257eb72b48ac91101df2c8f0a9e9