Kansas City's Kaw Point Connector Trail opens | columbiatribune.com

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[Trail supporters celebrated] the opening on Tuesday in Kansas City, Kan., of a new $2.6 million concrete ramp that now allows both pedestrians and cyclists easy access to Kaw Point Riverfront Park.

The park is a crescent of land on the Missouri River on the edge of industrial Kansas City, Kan. It is a historic landing and camping point for the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark as part of their exploration of the interior of the United States between 1804 and 1806.

The east from Kaw Point offers one of the more sweeping views of Downtown Kansas City.

The new pedestrian and cyclist ramp helps extend the western portion of the 15-mile bike and pedestrian trail known as the Riverfront Heritage Trail that sweeps along the Missouri River in both Kansas City and Kansas City, Kan.

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Kansas City's Kaw Point Connector Trail opens | columbiatribune.com

MoBikeFed comment: The Kaw Point Connector Trail is one of the more significant trail connections in the Kansas City area--comparable to a new trail connector across the Missouri or Kansas Rivers--because it connects downtown KCMO and downtown KCK to Kaw Point and the entire Fairfax district in KCK.

This is a connection that was very difficult and dangerous for people who walk and bicycle, because of numerous high-speed roads and freeways, as well as a railroad and two rivers, and pass throug the area.

More information at http://kcrivertrails.org/