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We've made a major update to our resource page that is designed to help you plan your next bicycle tour, bicycle route--whether it's for a afternoon's ride, a weekend, or a week--bikepacking or gravel tour, or trip on a Missouri bicycle trail. 

We've added a section with detailed information about finding services, food, lodging, and camping along your route.

Visit the full Resources for planning Missouri bicycle and trails trips and routes page here.

Here is the new information about finding lodging, camping, food, and services when you are planning your Missouri bicycle tour or trip:

Finding Camping, Lodging, Services, and Supplies

Finding a place to stay, a place to eat, supplies, and services is a lot easier now than it once was. But still, finding the best places is not all that easy. And particularly in rural Missouri, the best places may not be easy to find online. 

Here are some tips and available resources:

The Ozark Trail Association and Ozark Highlands Trail Association have started an ambitious project to link the two trails.

When complete, the "Trans Ozark Trail" will be a roughly 700-mile hiking trail stretching from near Cuba, Missouri, to Lake Fort Smith, Arkansas.

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Trans Ozark Trail - Closing the Gaps brochure

Since changes related to the COVID-19 pandemic started this year, our members, media, and law enforcement across the state have noted that a small percentage of drivers are driving at far faster speeds than in previous years.

It is still only a small percentage of overall drivers, but the percentage of very fast speeders is both noticeably larger than in previous years typical speeds seem to be faster.  Law enforcement and safety leaders are very concerned about this trend, because it has led to noticeably higher injuries and fatalities on the state's roads--including injuries and fatalities for vulnerable road users, like those who walk, run, bicycle, and use various assistive devices to move around our communities and neighborhoods.

The Missouri Coalition for Roadway Safety is working in cooperation with law enforcement agencies from all across Missouri to change this dynamic. 

Below is the announcement for their Fall 2020 speed enforcement campaign. 

During the peak of the COVID shutdown, many drivers became used to driving very fast on mostly-empty roads.  Now that traffic patterns have returned closer to normal, a certain group of drivers seem to be continuing their fast-driving habits.

Unfortunately, fast driving has disastrous consequences when the fast-moving car meets a pedestrian, a bicyclist, or another vehicle.

Here is a research summary from ProPublica that shows just exactly how much difference it makes when a motor vehicle is traveling just 10 or 20mph faster:

Once cars reach a certain speed (just above 20 mph), they rapidly become more deadly. According to Tefft's data, a person is about 70 percent more likely to be killed if they’re struck by a vehicle traveling at 30 mph versus 25 mph.