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28 sie 2015 · Whether you’re interested in a half-hour stroll or a six-day, cross-state bike ride, Missouri River bluffs or open fields, primitive campsites or quaint towns, the Katy Trail has the diversity to keep you coming back. Designed for hikers and bicyclists, the trail also allows horseback riding in certain areas (see mostateparks.com for details).
The Katy Trail State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Missouri that contains the Katy Trail, the country's longest continuous recreational rail trail. [1] It runs 240 miles (390 km), largely along the northern bank of the Missouri River, in the right-of-way of the former Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad. [2]
The MKT Nature and Fitness Trail is a recreational rail trail in Columbia, Missouri, that runs nine miles (14 km) in the right-of-way of the former Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad. Developed from 1982 onward, it is a spur of the longest rail trail in the United States, the Katy Trail.
22 paź 2024 · Travel from the Katy Trail into Columbia, Missouri’s quintessential college town, on the MKT Nature and Fitness Trail. The 8.9 mile route meets the Katy Trail at the McBaine Trailhead and connects to Columbia’s trail system, offering access to the downtown area.
The park is the largest unbroken rail trail corridor in the country, stretching nearly 240 miles across most of central Missouri. The history of the route can be traced back to the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad (a.k.a., the Katy, or the MKT), and the corridor was part of its main line to St. Louis.
As the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Extension Railway, the Katy was projected deep into Texas in 1878. By 1888, it reached deep into Texas also extending the Sedalia, Missouri line to Hannibal. By 1900, the Katy got a line from Kansas City to Parsons.
1 lip 2024 · 1. Katy Railroad Marker. Inscription. The Missouri-Kansas-Texas. Early in 1870, Judge Levi Parsons, head of the Union Pacific Southern Branch, called a meeting. He announced his plans to be the first railroad to reach the Indian Territory bordering Kansas.
