New Butterfield Stage Experience Bicycle Route Sets Stage For Scenic Route | Benton County Enterprise

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The Butterfield Stage Experience is a new route passing through the county extending for 254 miles through nine counties, and 27 main streets. It begins in Springfield and ends in Jefferson City....

The Butterfield Stage Experience route was inspired in the spring of 2018 at a regional trails meeting headed by Kaysinger Basin Regional Planning Commission and the National Park Service Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance Program. Brent Hugh, with the Missouri Bicycle Federation was instrumental in assisting the regional trail planning group with learning what was possible and how to create routes through the Kaysinger Region. 

Mac Vorce, Director of the Warsaw Chamber of Commerce, said that there was no money spent on the project.

“We used gravel highways and low travel roads,” said Vorce. “Going through multitudes of workshops about economic development along trails with the organization ‘New Growth,’ it became clear that there were big possibilities with the little investment from each community, utilizing existing infrastructure. We looked at our whole county and Lincoln became the hub linking us to the Rock Island and Katy Trails in Windsor.”

Vorce stated that the new route has been planned (as close as possible) to follow the original Missouri route of the Butterfield Stage Overland Mail that operated from 1858 to 1861.  John Butterfield signed a contract with the U.S. government to provide twice-a-week mail service from St. Louis to San Francisco.

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New Butterfield Stage Experience Bicycle Route Sets Stage For Scenic Route | Benton County Enterprise

MoBikeFed comment: Get the route an dall the information you need to to ride the Butterfield Stage Experience route at:

http://MoBikeFed.org/Butterfield