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BikerBoy from Maryville, IL on 4/7/2020 8:57:35 PM:

Just released today:
https://www.stlmag.com/longform/katy-trail-guide/

Jerry Whittle from Belleville Illinois on 4/8/2020 9:49:28 AM:

Great info. I still hope to ride across the Katy Trail sometime this year.

Instead I've been riding out of O'Fallon and Collinsville on the Madison County trails while maintaining social distancing except with my wife who is on the back of the tandem!

Allen from Shawnee,Ks on 4/13/2020 9:03:28 AM:

your lucky if you can still ride trails at all. Around here (Johnson Co. Ks) the trail are so crowded it would be impossible to ride safely with appropriate social distancing. I have gone to riding on the streets, very little traffic (almost none sometimes) and able to be away from others. I am a long time bike rider 30 years, so even if there is some traffic it really doesn't bother me. Most of my life the only places to ride have been on streets, the trails thing is relatively recent.

Good luck with your riding
Allen

Scott from Gladstone on 4/14/2020 9:18:33 AM:

Agree with Allen regarding trail “traffic”. It’s quite bad up North as well. A great trail system exists that is currently mobbed by non-riders. Clueless nature gawkers and triple-wide child stroller parades make the trails impassable. The worst are to dog owners that insist that the trail has been redesignated as off- lease parks.

I’m back on the roads again as well.

Greg from Overland Park, KS on 4/17/2020 12:17:53 AM:

Allen is dead on about the trails here in Johnson County. March 25th, first really nice day here, the trails looked like a street carnival. People meandering around aimlessly, parents having big lawn chair parties while their kids were running wild and mobbing the playground equipment. I've abandoned the trails and parks and have also been strictly on streets. With the reduced traffic I can ride on just about any street I want. I don't interact with anyone, give road adjacent sidewalk users a wide berth and don't touch anything I don't take with me. From what I can see of the trails that occasionally run parallel to some of my routes, things seem to have gotten a little better. I did see a motorcycle officer patrolling the trail one day, so that may be helping the situation, but still not worth taking a chance on them while so many of the roads are now more easily traversed.

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