Seizing the green in greenways: Missouri Rock Island Trail Inc annual meeting celebrates Missouri's trail accomplishments--and future | News Tribune
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The Missouri Rock Island Trail (MoRIT) organization held its annual meeting Tuesday night in the Cedar City Room.
The purpose of the night was two-fold: celebrate the opening of the first 47 miles of the Rock Island Trail in December, and begin to prepare for Ameren's gift of the next 144 miles of salvaged rail corridor later this year. . . .
MoRIT Executive Director Greg Harris explained the purpose of highlighting where they are and where they hope to be is to foment networking and inspire people to strategize on how to take advantage of the economic development opportunities in their communities along the trail.
"This is a pot of gold," he said of the opportunities the Rock Island Trail would present.
"You can see, they're talking to each other now," he pointed out of members from different communities speaking with each other at the meeting — Warsaw with Belle, Kansas City with Sedalia.
The current 47 miles of reclaimed rail-to-trail system connects Pleasant Hill near Kansas City with Windsor, where the trail connects to the Katy Trail system.
In the future, the Rock Island Trail would connect to communities, including Eldon and Eugene, as it works its way east toward Beaufort, near Union, and the gateway of the St. Louis region, where it could eventually reconnect into the Katy Trail.
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