Miles Coiner from Boston, MA on 10/15/2008 10:38:56 AM:
Some Boonville tips. If you are staying, or might stay, at either the Holiday Inn Express or
Comfort Inn and are coming from the west, don't ride all the way into town. There is a cutoff
at the Boonville Community Services bulletin board about two miles before you get to the
depot. It takes you along a ridge to the motels. We stayed at the Holiday Inn and it was very
good. In the morning we rode back to where we left the trail. In Boonville coffee lovers
should be aware of Taylor's Bake Shop, a block off the trail on Morgan St. Their espresso is
excellent, and I mean really excellent! Riding from Sedalia to Jeff City we had trouble in
September with trailhead water stops being shut off. What's up with services on the trail?