The Katy Trail, Celebrating 25 Years | Terrain Magazine

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Eldon Meyer brought his wife, Maggie, from the East to a rundown farmhouse on a hill outside his hometown of Hermann on the Missouri River.

She was not happy.

“I was a Jersey girl — I thought it was the Wild West,” Maggie said. “I guess you could call it a midlife crisis. We thought it would be nice to have a farm, but this was a dump.”

Four years later, the couple had fixed up the two-story farmhouse to the point where they decided to turn it into a bed-and-breakfast in the country, with hummingbirds by the front porch swing and a donkey in the pasture.

They called it Meyer’s Hilltop Farm because it was, indeed, on a hill above the tiny town of McKittrick, which is across the river from Hermann.

That was 1990 and, unbeknownst to Eldon and Maggie, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources had big plans for the abandoned Missouri-Kansas-Texas rail line that ran along the bottom of the hill.

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