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	Katy Trail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Katy Trail is a 225-mile long, flat hiking and biking trail that stretches from St. Charles (near St. Louis) to Clinton (near Kansas City), following the Missouri River valley for much of the way across the center of the state.
		Missouri's Katy Trail State Park is the longest, non-motorized public portion of the entire Lewis and Clark Trail.
		The American Discovery Trail traverses Missouri from St. Louis to Kansas City, using 158 miles of Katy Trail State Park from the Highway 370 Bridge over the Missouri River at St. Charles to Sportsman Road in Boonville at Interstate 70.
	www.rocheport.com /katy_trail.htm (547 words)

	Katy Trail Bicycle Tour
		From the moment we begin our journey at the trail's western terminus in Clinton to the final moments at the landing in St. Charles, we are surrounded and immersed in the rich historical and cultural legacy of this region.
		Katy Rails-to-Trails will trace the early (and final) stages of that expedition as it launched from St. Charles and followed the river across the Missouri Territory, ultimately to its headwaters in Montana, ultimately returning on the Missouri to St. Charles in 1806.
		The Katy also was a vital force in the opening of the west, and its rails were laid along the natural corridor that followed the course of the river.
	www.timbertours.com /HL_KT.html (619 words)

	Trail Tourism: Promotion of the Katy Trail in Missour, railtrail greenway economic benefits, right-of-way abandoned, ...
		The Katy Trail is part of the American Discovery Trail and a portion of the trail has been officially designated as part of the Lewis and Clark Heritage Trail.
		KATY Central is a cooperative marketing project developed by eight communities along the central corridor of the Katy Trail State Park.
		KATY Central also follows one of the original intents of the Coop Marketing Program which is the creation of regional partnerships that will encourage visitors to stay longer and spend more money in the state.
	www.americantrails.org /resources/economics/KatyTourism.html (2526 words)

	Information On The Katy Trail
		Cathy Turman is somewhat of an expert on the Katy Trail.
		The Katy Trail is extraordinary because it benefits so many people of differing abilities.
		There are bed and breakfast inn's, as well as camping, along the Katy Trail for those who would like to ride the entire trail.
	www.stlbiking.com /Trail-KatyTrail.htm (656 words)

	Katy Trail State Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Katy Trail is anchored on the east by St. Charles, where it runs alongside scenic parks commemorating the city's role in the United States's westward expansion.
		The trail uses the historic MKT miles; as of 2004, the trail begins at mile 39.
		Due to the Katy Trail's railbank status, it must always remain connected to the national railway network so that it could potentially be called back into active railway use.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Katy_Trail_State_Park (818 words)

	How's business on the Katy Trail? Entrepreneurs see opportunities in Trails and Greenways economic benefits tourism ...
		I would say that the trail is only being used 10 to 15 percent of its potential." Humphries said the state should promote the Katy in a national ad campaign in tourism and biking magazines.
		Even disregarding the health, environmental and quality-of-life benefits of the Katy Trail and focusing only on economics, the remaining question is only whether it is a major success or an incredible success.
		It's wonderful that a new section of the Katy Trail is being opened to Missouri bicyclists and hikers.
	www.americantrails.org /resources/economics/EconKatyTrBusiness.html (1638 words)

	Katy Trail State Park Trail Report \| Katy Trail State Park Trail Review
		At 225 miles (currently) in length, the Katy Trail is the longest developed rail trail in the country.
		The trail is composed of pug (fine packed gravel) but there are a few areas of larger, loose gravel where the trail had recently washed out.
		Several of the towns along the trail have bike rentals, food, lodging, and lots of shops.We recently had the opportunity to ride the full length of the Katy Trail over a five day period.
	www.trails.com /trail_reviews.asp?trailid=BGM005-005 (988 words)

	Katy Trail Adventure - Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Frequently, we are riding this basically hard-pack crushed limestone trail with the Missouri to the right and the rugged, towering limestone bluffs for which Missouri is famous on our left.
		At times, we are cycling through an arboreal wonderland, adorned by blossoming Dogwood in the spring and ablaze with color in the fall; other times we ride through the incomparably fertile bottomlands and beautiful vineyards of the Missouri wine country.
		KATY Rails-to-Trails will trace the early stages of that expedition as it launched from St. Charles and followed the river across the Missouri Territory, ultimately to its headwaters in Montana.
	fpmoritz1.home.mindspring.com /katy_trail_2002 (522 words)

	Katy Trail Guidebook Excerpts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Though Katy Trail enthusiasts were first met by stiff opposition from many landowners who felt the deeded railroad land should be returned to them, trail proponents eventually won out.
		By contrast, the Katy Trail is nestled in rural seclusion, allowing hikers and bikers to travel through some of the most scenic areas of Missouri.
		Spring bathes the trail in dazzling greens and the trail is showered with flowering dogwoods and redbuds.
	www.pebblepublishing.com /katy_trail_guidebook_excerpts.htm (1384 words)

	Bicycle Touring 101: Riding the Katy trail during a bicycle touring adventure
		The Katy Trail is America’s longest rails-to-trails project, stretching 225 miles (365 km) across the state of Missouri.
		The surface of the Katy Trail is crushed limestone, sometimes called “pug” or “chat”.
		Most Katy Trail travelers say the best thing about the trail, even better than the mighty Missouri River, is the fellow cyclists that they meet there.
	www.bicycletouring101.com /PlacesKatyTrail.htm (736 words)

	Missouri: Katy Trail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Often referred to as the "Lewis and Clark Trail," you will pass many historic markers, including the Lewis and Clark cave that was detailed in their journals.
		Katy is a nickname for the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, which built this line in the mid-1890s.
		The photos at the bottom left show how pretty the trail is when it runs right on the river, which it does in many places.
	www.great-trails.com /katy.shtml (185 words)

	Pro-Velo - Your Full Service Bike Source for Family and Enthusiasts on the Katy Trail
		The Katy Trail meanders through a wide variety of Missouri's most scenic landscapes.
		Columbia, home of the University of Missouri and the areas largest city, is located just off the Katy Trail, connected by the MKT Fitness Trail.
		As the Katy Trail leaves central Missouri and winds its way along the river bottoms towards St. Louis, it enters Missouri's Rhineland, or Weinstrasse, where both small and large vineyard continue Missouri's wine-producing tradition.
	www.pro-velo.com /katytrail.html (347 words)

	KATY TRAIL 2002
		Missouri's Katy Trail State Park is the longest (264 miles) rails to trails recreational trail in the U.S. The eastern terminus of the Katy Trail, St. Charles, has long served as a gateway to
		The Katy Trail follows their route up the Missouri River for 150 miles, using the abandoned Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad grade from which the "K-T" Trail got its name.
		The Katy Trail is traffic-free, and the relatively flat grade provides ideal bicycling conditions.
	www.biketrip2001.com /KatyTrail/KatyTrailHome.htm (919 words)

	Katy Trail (Dallas) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Katy Trail is a bicycling and hiking path that runs through the Oak Lawn area of Dallas, Texas (USA), following the path of the old Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, which was known as MKT or the Katy.
		The trail's life began when the Union Pacific Railroad, which had bought the Katy, donated the abandoned lines to the city in 1993.
		Developers hope that the Katy Trail will prove an effective way of connecting the various city parks running from White Rock Lake to the planned park system along the Trinity River—it runs alongside Reverchon Park and the park system along Turtle Creek.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Katy_Trail_of_Dallas (231 words)

	The KATY Trail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Katy Trail State Park, one of the longest rails-to-trails conversions, travels across the State of Missouri from near St. Louis to Sedalia.
		The trail is owned and maintained by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, and is designated as a State Park.
		Further west on the trail, you emerge from a tunnel of trees and are treated to a spectacular view of bluffs and hills in the
	www.mv24.org /katy.html (208 words)

	Katy Trail Maps, Towns, Events, Mileage, and more
		The Katy Trail is a 225 mile (365 km) bike path stretching across most of the state of Missouri.
		These legal attacks on the Katy Trail may or may not be successful--but that's just the point.
		If you like the Katy Trail, you'll also enjoy the CandO Canal Towpath Trail, which runs 185 miles from Washington DC to Cumberland Maryland, along the banks of the Potomac River.
	www.bikekatytrail.com (1532 words)

	KATY trail memories
		The Katy Trail is a 225 mile (365 km) bike path stretching across most of the state of Missouri.
		Over half of the Katy Trail follows Lewis and Clark's path up the Missouri River, where you can ride beneath towering river bluffs while eagles circle overhead.
		After leaving the river, the Katy Trail meanders through peaceful farmland and small-town Americana.
	www.wyokies.com /katymemories.htm (203 words)

	Friends of Katy Trail: The Friends of the Katy Trail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Friends of the Katy Trail is a non-profit organization founded to organize community support for the Katy Trail, to advocate support for the Trail, to raise private funds for the completion of the Trail and to help the City of Dallas plan, build and maintain Trail improvements.
		The Katy Trail is a 30-acre linear park running through the densest part of Dallas.
		The Friends of the Katy Trail has received several awards including a Livable Community Award for Community Impact from the Trans Texas Alliance, a Trinity Backlands Urban Forestry Award, a Community Millennium Trail award for the White House Millennium Council, an American Institute of Architects Honor Award, and a Greater Dallas Planning Council award.
	www.katytraildallas.org /site/PageServer?pagename=fkt_friends (270 words)

	Katy Trail Guidebook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Missouri’s 225-mile long Katy Trail is the perfect place to slow the sway of your inner pendulum, atune your slower groove and practice an appreciation of nature seldom seen on the Discovery channel.
		The longest rails-to-trails conversions in the United States, the Katy Trail meanders beside the Missouri River and towering limestone bluffs.
		The Katy Trail is also the longest public, non-motorized portion of the entire Lewis and Clark Trail.
	www.pebblepublishing.com /complete_katy_trail_guidebook.htm (912 words)

	Riding the Katy Trail, GoNOMAD in Missouri
		So yes, the challenge of riding the longest rail trail in the country is part of the appeal, but if you go, make sure to explore all that the Show Me State has to offer along the way.
		The Katy Trail is one of the crown jewels of the Rails-to-Trails movement in America.
		The Katy stretches across the central part of the state from Clinton in the west to St. Charles in the east.
	www.gonomad.com /transports/0507/riding_the_katy_trail.html (2118 words)

	/ keaggy.com :: Katy Trail 2002 / (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Missouri's Katy Trail is America's longest rails to trails project.
		I picked up a copy of Brett Dufur's The Complete Katy Trail Guidebook at Left Bank Books and spent several evenings reading about the trail and the small towns along the way, and making plans for camping and sleeping.
		After a bike tune-up, a few survival purchases and some conditioning rides along the Mississippi Riverfront Trail, I packed my things and took a train to Sedalia so I could ride the trail back to the St. Louis area.
	keaggy.com /katytrail/2002 (215 words)

	Katy Trail State Park - Boonville, MO, 65233 - Citysearch
		Katy Trail State Park is built on what used to be the Missouri-Kansas Railroad (aka the Katy).
		Today the Katy Trail is 225 miles long and, for most of its miles, follows the bends of the Missouri River.
		The section of the trail between St. Charles and Boonville is the "Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail."
	www.citysearch.com /profile/11511682 (289 words)

	«River- Katy Trail» (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Katy Trail runs across Missouri on the bed the old Missouri-Kansas-Texas (MKT, aka, the Katy) Railroad.
		It’s the longest rails to trails project in the country, 225 miles from St. Charles to Clinton.
		Much of the trail hugs the Missouri River, and is part of Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail.
	www.hearingvoices.com /trail/river/katy.html (308 words)

	The Katy Trail © Ed Noonan 2002
		The Katy is a 225 mile long crushed limestone rail trail that parallels the Missouri River.
		We had been warned that riding as early in the year as we were, the Katy Trail could be soggy.
		It appeared that the limestone had deteriorated over the winter and that in some places DNR had actually dumped sand onto the trail, presumably planning later to augment it with fresh crushed limestone.
	www.tailwinds.org /org/Katy/katytrail.html (1324 words)

	Katy Trail's Boonville Bridge Lawsuit
		Today the Katy Trail is a state treasure attracting more than 300,000 hikers and bicyclists from across the world each year and serving as an economic engine that creates jobs for rural Missouri.
		They were joined by Raye Reynolds, the former vice president of property management for the MKT Railroad who negotiated and signed the 1987 agreement on behalf of the railroad, and by Pat Jones, who, with her husband, Edward (Ted) Jones, was the major private donor for the creation and development of the Katy Trail.
		In 1987, the state of Missouri, under the auspices of the federal Rails to Trails Act, acquired a property interest in the bridge and the rest of the MKT right-of-way in an agreement that resulted in the creation of the 225-mile long Katy Trail State Park.
	www.ago.mo.gov /lawsuits/BoonvilleBridge (999 words)

	The Katy Trail - Cycling from St. Louis to Kansas City
		The trail surface is ground limestone and generally fairly smooth and fast, although in some sections there are lots of loose stones and it gets somewhat more tricky.
		Since the trail crosses the Missouri at Boonville where it turns southwest (the trail not the river) for Sedalia, the new bridge there has a wide sidewalk to acommodate it.
		This trail is unique in the fact that it is a state park, which accounts for its excellent maintenance.
	www.crw.org /tours/Katy_trail (6605 words)

	Lewis & Clark Segment I: Ride Across Missouri on the Katy Trail
		This 250-mile, firmly packed trail follows the north side of the river all the way to Boonville.
		The bike path is the former rail bed of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Rail-road (the "Katy".) The Corps, pushing upstream in the river against spring run-off, moved slowly, as few as 4mph.
		It was settled in the early 1800s, after the sons of Daniel Boone established a commercial salt lick that attracted numerous pioneers to the area.
	www.womantours.com /wt.lewisclark_katytrail.html (808 words)

	Katy Trail State Park FAQ
		The trail was built on former railroad tracks and closely follows the Missouri River, so it's exceptionally flat, as you might expect.
		The trail surface is not suitable for inline skating.
		Trailhead parking lots along the equestrian section of the Katy Trail are designed to accommodate horse trailer parking.
	www.bikekatytrail.com /faq.asp (2693 words)

	Friends of Katy Trail:
		While the Friends of the Katy Trail continues to focus on raising the $23 million necessary to implement its master plan, one vital element of fundraising can never be overlooked.
		The Friends of the Katy Trail has partnered with Audubon Texas to bring native vegetation back to urban Dallas.
		The project began with the spraying of herbicide on the existing bermudagrass in August to reduce competition with the native grasses.
	www.katytraildallas.org (833 words)

	WFAA.com \| Business
		Up and down the Katy Trail, which extends for more than three miles, developers are scrambling to tie their projects into the public right of way.And it's no wonder.
		The Palomar developers are working with the city of Dallas to extend the Katy Trail from where it ends, near Glencoe Park, to their project about two blocks away.
		"The Katy Trail is the closest thing we have to a central park, and it runs through one of the most densely populated areas of the city."
	www.wfaa.com /sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/122206dnbuskaty.30b2e2f.html (1033 words)

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