Mark from Lee's Summit on 5/11/2023 9:26:09 PM:
Yes! Many people don't know that there now is a very good bicycle route from Union Station to the Rock Island Trail at the Stadium Complex. I will try and prepare a Google Map link for you, but in general the route goes from Union Station a few blocks east along 22nd Street to the newly extended Gilham Road cycletrack, south on the cycletrack to the Brush Creek Trail system, east on that trail where you eventually cross Brush Creek and transfer over to the Blue River Trail, and when that finally ends, you have a couple miles of street riding along Stadium Drive and Raytown Road until you get into the Stadium Complex and hop on the Rock Island Trail. Union Station is located in a valley, so you get to enjoy a big hill right away as you head south on the Gilham Road cycletrack, but after that first big hill the riding is not bad at all. I will mention that much of the Gilham Road cycletrack is new so you will have to zoom into street view on Google Maps to see and understand what it looks like.