Tram offers elderly and disabled visitors tours of Katy Trail State Park | News-Leader

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Megan Kelly, an employee of state parks, sat up front on the tram with a microphone and gave a rolling history lesson. She talked about the churches and businesses along the way, the development of the trail and the history of the small railroad towns.

As the tram pulled out of Rhineland, Kelly noted that the town was flooded four times during the Great Flood of 1993. The village’s 157 residents decided to move their homes from the bottoms to the bluffs. Thirty-two of the town’s 52 homes were picked up and hauled out of harm’s way. . . . .

Kelly told the passengers that the linear Katy Trail State Park now stretched 240 miles, from Machens on the east to Clinton on the west. The flat, gravel trail follows a route abandoned by the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, and is the country’s longest developed rails-to-trails project.

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Tram offers elderly and disabled visitors tours of Katy Trail State Park | News-Leader

MoBikeFed comment: This is one of a series of Katy Trail tram rides offered by Missouri State Parks this year. Find out more at:

https://mostateparks.com/page/59151/fall-colors-tram-tours