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Sante Fe Trail revived: New trail along old trail 'a gem' of a plan | Independence Examiner

Submitted by Brent Hugh on Tue, 10/06/2015 - 6:05am

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Advocates of a local hiking-and-biking trail along the route of the Santa Fe Trail further sketched out their hopes on Monday.

“It’s just a hidden sort of gem that we have,” Travis Boley of the Oregon-California Trails Association, based in Independence, told Jackson County legislators on Monday.

The National Park Service has designated the corridor from the Wayne City landing in Sugar Creek south to the Square, then south and west through Independence and into Raytown and Kansas City, then west to Gardner, Kansas, as a national park. Last month, the Mid-America Regional Council hired a company, using Park Service funds, to determine a “retracement” of the route used by settlers on the Santa Fe, California and Oregon trails.

“From beginning to end, the retracement trail is 40 miles long,” Boley said.

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