Clinton To Rocheport

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Flip Putthoff from Rogers, Arkansas on 4/11/2007 3:50:32 PM:

Hi! I plan to ride the Katy from Clinton to Rocheport. What's this stretch like? I've been from
Rocheport to St. Chuckie. Thanks, FP

Jason from Huntsville, AL on 4/11/2007 4:46:04 PM:

Clinton to Rocheport is not quite as scenic as the eastern end. There are a lot of long stretches through fields. I still think it is nice, just not quite as nice as the eastern end.

J&K from Drexel MO on 4/11/2007 7:06:59 PM:

I agree with Jason for the most part,but I find the stretch between Sedalia and Boonville interesting. The trail winds along and over the Lamine river with some scenic views. The trail is the most "hilly"(for a rail trail!)in this are as well. The grades are not bad, just long and steady. New Franklin to Rocheport....very straight...very flat. But your trip will end going through the only earth tunnel on the trail! Have fun.

Trek Biker from St. Joseph, MO on 4/11/2007 9:17:46 PM:

I've seen quite a bit of wildlife along this stretch.....deer and turkey. In fact, north of Pilot Grove last spring my cell phone rang....spooked a deer out of the brush and I came within a couple of feet of hitting her. Her hind feet went out from under her as she hit the trail right in front of me.

Also, Whiteman Air Force Base is close enough to see a B-2 Stealth bomber fly over if you're lucky.

GC from Columbia, Mo. on 4/12/2007 7:09:52 AM:

I agree. I found the western end of the trail scenic as well. You don't have the river flowing on one side of the trail through this stretch, but there are plenty of sections of the eastern half where the river is a mile or two away from the path and you are walking through the farm fields.
At any rate, I like farm fields. :-)
I have also seen lots of wildlife. I think the most interesting was a bobcat that I saw somewhere between Sedalia and Pilot Grove, if memory serves.

MAH from Blue Springs, MO on 4/12/2007 11:22:58 AM:

I also think the western end of the trail is scenic in its' own way. Lots of wildlife (I saw a bobcat a few miles out of Clinton early one morning), deeply wooded areas, lots of creeks/streams to pass over, fields, I watched an Amish farmer plow his field by horse and plow west of Windsor one afteroon. All sections of the trail are secenic in their own way!
Although....those occasional long slow low grades on the western end aren't steep by any means...they just seem to go on forever some times!

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