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Katy Trail: Wine Country runs 34 miles along the north side of the Missouri River from McKittrick, opposite Hermann, to Augusta, through the heart of the Missouri Rhineland: Treloar, Peers, Marthasville, Dutzow, and Augusta, the German settlements that planted this valley in vines. The crushed limestone is rail flat, with the tallest bluffs on the Katy standing over the trail west of Treloar and bottomland fields opening out toward the river elsewhere. Wineries sit within reach of the trail at Dutzow and Augusta, and the Daniel Boone monument is a short detour from Marthasville. West of McKittrick the trail is Katy Trail: Hermann; east of Augusta it becomes Katy Trail: Confluence.
Katy Trail: Wine Country
Your comfort. Prognosticated.
-Cory
In a typical year the Katy Trail: Wine Country has about 103 to 144 days of excellent weather for popular activities such as hiking, dog walking, birding, e-biking, biking, running, and walking, with April, October, and November the best months.
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In half of past years, color along the Katy Trail: Wine Country peaks October 22 to November 2, typically around October 27. The trail has 30% deciduous coverage, with the majority being white oak, northern red oak, sugar maple, and black oak.
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 runs the river line through Missouri's oldest German settlements, from McKittrick past Treloar and Marthasville to Dutzow and Augusta. When the tracks reached Dutzow in 1893, the village's stores moved down to the railroad.
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