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Katy Trail: Hermann covers 43 miles of Missouri River bottomland from North Jefferson, across the river from the state capitol, east to McKittrick, the trailhead opposite the German wine town of Hermann. The crushed limestone runs dead flat through open river-bottom farm fields, with the small rail towns of Tebbetts, Mokane, Steedman, Portland, and Rhineland spaced along the way and the dolomite wall of Grand Bluffs rising north of the trail near Rhineland. Hermann is a short side trip from McKittrick over the bicycle lane on the Bond Bridge. West of North Jefferson the trail continues as Katy Trail: Bluffs; east of McKittrick it becomes Katy Trail: Wine Country.
Katy Trail: Hermann
Your comfort. Prognosticated.
-Cory
In a typical year the Katy Trail: Hermann has about 106 to 144 days of excellent weather for popular activities such as hiking, dog walking, birding, e-biking, running, biking, and walking, with April, October, and November the best months.
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In half of past years, color along the Katy Trail: Hermann peaks October 21 to 31, typically around October 26. The trail has 34% deciduous coverage, with the majority being white oak, northern red oak, sugar maple, black oak, and shagbark hickory.
An October 1986 Missouri River flood tore out the Katy's track between Sedalia and Machens, and the railroad chose not to rebuild. The corridor was far older than that flood. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, the Katy, ran its first train from Sedalia to Clinton in 1870, living on Texas cattle and farm traffic. In 1874 it bridged the Missouri at Boonville. In the 1890s its subsidiary, the Missouri, Kansas and Eastern, laid a new line down the Missouri River valley to St. Charles and Machens to reach St. Louis. After the washout the Katy asked to abandon almost 200 miles across Missouri. Missouri State Parks took the corridor under the rail banking amendment to the National Trails System Act, and Ted and Pat Jones gave 2.2 million dollars toward the purchase. Construction began in 1987, and the first section opened at Rocheport in 1990. Union Pacific donated the Sedalia to Clinton corridor in 1991. The Great Flood of 1993 damaged 75 of the trail's first 126 miles. The trail reached Sedalia in 1996, Clinton in 1999, and Machens in 2011. It is now 240 miles long, and in 2007 it became the second trail inducted into the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy Hall of Fame. This segment follows the river line through Callaway and Montgomery counties, passing Tebbetts, Mokane named for the Missouri Kansas and Eastern, Portland, and Rhineland which moved uphill after the 1993 flood, and it ends at McKittrick across from Hermann.
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