The Katy Trail’s inclusion in the Rail-Trail Hall of Fame is totally deserved. While we only had time to ride a small stretch of the 240-mile trail that bisects the state, if the rest of trail is anything like what we experienced midway, it’s not to be missed.
As of 2021, it’s also the longest continuous rail-trail, built upon the old Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (MKT) or the Katy, for short. One astonishing fact we learned about this railroad track involved a poorly executed publicity stunt in 1896 that drew 40,000 people to witness a staged train collision, called the Crash at Crush.
