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Bicycle trails and trail maps (mostly off-road)

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Missouri Bicycle Federation, Inc.

Post Office Box 104871
Jefferson City, MO 65110-4871

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Missouri Bicycle Trails

This page lists trails that are mostly off-road, both multi-use trails (relatively wide and sometimes paved) and single-track mountain bike trails (narrow and unpaved). See also the Missouri Maps and Routes page for the type of "trail" that is (or is mostly) an on-road route.

On this page:

State-wide trails and maps
Kansas City area trails and maps
St. Louis area trails and maps
Springfield area/Ozark Greenways trails and maps
St. Joseph area trails

State-wide

Katy Trail State Park.
Other helpful links for a Katy Trail bicycle trip:
- BikeKatyTrail.com is a site with all manner of information about the Katy Trail, destinations, accommodations, and travel information. It has an active discussion area. Highly recommended!
- Getting from Kirkwood Amtrak Station (St. Louis area) to the Katy Trail
- How to get from downtown St. Louis to the Katy Trail
- How to get from Kansas City to the Katy Trail:
  - See the proposed cross-state routes map for routes from Kansas City to the Katy Trail
  - The 2004 MS150 used a nice route (see map, PDF format, 6 MB) from the Kansas City area to Windsor, which is near the western end of the Katy Trail. Combining that map with the second day map (PDF, 4MB) also gives a nice route from Sedalia to the Kansas City metro area. For ideas about getting from anywhere in the KC Metro area to the starting point of these maps, look at this bicycling map of Jackson County, MO.
- Amtrak will take you and your bike to several points on the Katy Trail, and shuttle services are available. A little more Amtrak info here.
The American Discovery Trail--a network of on- and off-road routes stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans. The route through Missouri goes from St. Louis to Kansas City and uses the Katy Trail to cover much of the distance.
Searchable list of mountain biking trails in state conservation areas - located throughout the state, from the Missouri Department of Conservation
Earthriders list of Missouri and Kansas mountain biking trails
A complete (?) list of multi-use bike paths in Missouri (Rail-trails, greenways, and the like).
Missouri Mountain Bike Trails listed and reviewed by users at MTBReview.com.
Missouri Mountain Biking Trails listed and reviewed by users at DirtWorld.com
American Trails list of Missouri Trails, trail organizations, and resources
Resources to help with developing rail trails, Rails with Trails, greenway trails, etc.

Kansas City area

Earthriders list of Missouri and Kansas mountain biking trails
Maps and information about the Kansas City metro-area MetroGreen Trails--existing and planned multi-use trails throughout the metro area
Maps of Kansas City-area bike trails
Maps of trails in Jackson County (Missouri side of the KC metro area)
Maps of trails and on-road bicycle facilities in Johnson County (Kansas side of the KC metro area)
Smithville Lake single-track biking/hiking trails (Kansas City area). This map of the Smithville Lake trails is also available and more info about the trail is on the EarthRiders web site.
Northland Trails & Greenways and Northland Trails Vision Plan--planned multi-use trails throughout Clay and Platte counties. Right now most of these are still in the planning stage; a few are under constructions and a few more are already on the ground.

St. Louis

Springfield/Joplin/Ozarks

Ozark Greenways, Springfield, has a list of area trails, including trail maps

Frisco Greenway Trail, Joplin

Ruby Jack Trail, Carthage (under construction as of 10/2006)

St. Joseph

Mountain biking trails in the St. Joseph area.

Missouri Events Calendar

Sun, Jul 20

KC:2008 KC Bike and Footchase

Sat, Jul 26

Sun, Jul 27

Sat, Aug 2

Who Tri's Harder? Triathlon Innsbrook Resort. Wright CIty, MO

Beer & Brat Century

Fri, Aug 8

Sat, Aug 9

KC:KCBC Ride & Picnic

Central:Commuting

Mon, Aug 11

Central:Bike Pro- (youth class)

Sat, Aug 16

45th Annual Moonlight Ramble

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