Old memories of an historic railroad remain, but new memories are made daily on foot or by bike along the Katy Trail in the heart of Missouri. Bicycles, tricycles, walkers and runners have replaced ...

A map of the planned Rock Island Trail. Photo courtesy of Missouri State Parks. Cyclists ride the Rock Island Trail in July 2021. The trail was opened between Windsor, Mo., and the Kansas City suburb ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A new cross-state recreational trail is a step closer to completion after Missouri announced on Tuesday that it was accepting ownership of an old railroad corridor that can ...

Today, the Katy Trail spans 240 miles from St. Charles to Clinton.The name “Katy” comes from the railroad that preceded the trail, the MKT (Missouri-Kansas-Texa ...

The U.S. boasts more than 21,000 miles of rail trails, a concept that was first road-tested in the Midwest. The first time a community transformed an abandoned railway into a path was in rural ...

The Katy tracks pass by grain elevators in Marthasville, as shown in this 1986 photo. The state of Missouri on Sept. 16, 1986, announced plans to turn the part of the abandoned ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A new cross-state ...