Katy Trail journey

Jim Adams of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune writes about his adventure riding Missouri's Katy Trail:

It's a crushed limestone ribbon that takes bikers through wooded bluffs, deep valleys, pastures and the Missouri River bottoms along a former railway that stretches east to west across central Missouri.

At 225 miles, the Katy is the longest surfaced rails-to-trails bike route in the country . . . .

Little did we know that the Katy would lead us through treacherous mud flats, too many tire flats and the Wild Dogs of Tebbetts. But the trail also beguiled us with gracious old hotels, a rail tunnel punched through solid rock at Rocheport and a cast of characters who fed, housed and humored us.

Having just returned from a Katy Trail ride myself, I can vouch for both the flats and the characters. If you haven't biked the Katy yet, you ought to do it!

Missouri doesn't have anything else that compares to it . . .