Mark from Lee's Summit on 4/8/2021 3:22:02 PM:
I urge you to join the Fans of the Katy Trail Group on Facebook. On that Facebook page, you can go to Media and Videos and see actual videos of people using the low water crossing at the Salt Creek bridge. This low water crossing can be: dry with hard packed slopes (if it hasn't rained in several weeks), slightly muddy slopes with 1 inch of water in the creek, or 6 inches of water in the creek and muddy slopes that you and your bike will sink 9 inches deep. The huge rock slide blocking the Katy Trail 2 miles west of Portland has an easy 1 mile on road detour and you can zoom in with Google Maps and see it and the detour clearly. If you look at the Salt Creek bridge on Google Maps, it incorrectly shows it still undamaged and in place, but it does clearly show the low water crossing that is used to access the conservation area in the floodplain.