page_title: Trail Creek (Lake Michigan)
section_title: Watershed and course
hierarchical_section_title: Trail Creek (Lake Michigan) / Watershed and course
caption_attribution_description: English: Sampling sites for Trail Creek Watershed Water Monitoring Program
context_page_description: Trail Creek is a 7.3-mile-long north- by northwest-flowing stream whose main stem begins at the confluence of the West Branch Trail Creek and the East Branch Trail Creek in LaPorte County, Indiana, United States. Its mouth is a Lake Michigan harbor and marina adjacent to Michigan City, Indiana's lakefront Washington Park.
context_section_description: The Trail Creek Watershed, located in northwestern Indiana’s LaPorte County, drains a 59.1 square mile area of mixed land uses into Lake Michigan at Michigan City, IN. The watershed comprises three sub-watersheds: The Main Branch, the East Branch and the West Branch. The Main Branch sub-watershed has the greatest amount of developed land, including commercial, industrial and residential lands. The East Branch and West Branch sub-watersheds are primarily rural in character, including a mix of row crop agriculture, livestock, hayfield, low-density development and natural areas.
  Historically and to the present, Trail Creek has acted as a natural firebreak.
caption: Sampling locations for Trail Creek Watershed Partnership Water Quality Monitoring Program
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