Missouri's Katy Trail offers an experience cyclists can't find in Colorado | Colorado Springs Gazette, News

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From high-altitude hairpins to high-plains flatlands, Colorado provides a cyclist about every kind of experience possible. But there's nothing in Colorado quite like the cycling experience available a day's drive away, on Missouri's Katy Trail.

At 238 miles, the Katy Trail is the second longest in the nationwide Rails-to-Trails Conservancy network, outdistanced only by the 253-mile John Wayne Pioneer Trail in Washington state. At its western end in central-west Missouri, the Katy begins in Clinton, a town, like many along the route, that was born in the 1860s with the arrival of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad - the MKT, aka the K-T, or Katy. From Clinton, it tracks northeast to the town of Boonville, where the Katy settles onto the northern banks of the Missouri River, following it almost all the way to the Mississippi.

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