Katy Trail 2012
200 mile trip through Missouri from Sedalia to St. Charles, MO
Usually I reserve this blog for trips around Baton Rouge Louisiana, but I have to tell you about my voyage through Missouri on the nation's longest Rails-to-Trail Pathway, the KATY Trail. To better catalog our trip I've made 7 different posts on the journey - this one, one for each day, and a reflection/epilogue. Links to each post are at the bottom of this one.
Introduction/Preface
It has been extended throughout the years and now covers nearly the entire east west span of the state. From Machens, very near the meeting of the Missouri and Mississippi River to Clinton, near Kansas City at the border of the two states.
My wife and I had been planning this trip for months. Eternal gratitude is given to the website bikekatytrail.com. It's interactive maps and town attraction features allowed us to plan each day to the letter, even if we didn't quite follow the original plan.
Together with our buddies who live in St. Louis we laid out our plans thusly. We would:
- drive to St. Louis early Monday, the first day of my Spring Break, and crash at their place
- catch the first train out of St. Louis to Sedalia, MO, the western-most town with an Amtrak station
- hit the trail right after lunch and bike:
- 40 miles to camp in New Franklin
- 60 miles to Tebbets to stay in the furnished bike Hostel
- 65 miles to Augusta to camp in Klondike State Park
- 27 miles to St. Charles
We planned on traveling the trail in 4 days and from St. Charles we would make our way back to St. Louis by bike, bus, or public transit. We had an extra day for wiggle room just in case we needed it.
We did.
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