From Shannon Jaax,
City Planning and Development Department
The KCMO Citywide Trails Plan project team is challenging the creative minds of Kansas City (no age or expertise requirements) to a trail logo and naming competition.  The KCMO Citywide Trails Plan will be adopted later this year and a name and logo is needed to identify the trail […]

The Missouri Bicycle Federation reports that a bill has been introduced in the Missouri House of Representatives to allow the Missouri side of the Kansas City metro area to create a regional funding source for trails and other bicycle/pedestrian intrastructure. Northland Representative Trent Skaggs is sponsoring HB 2572, which would allow voters in Jackson, Clay, […]

The city of KCMO is working on a plan for a network of trails across the entire city.This week there will be two open houses to give the public a chance to see and comment on the latest draft of that plan. Learn more at kcmotrails.org.
Midtown Meeting
Tuesday, April 1
4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Presentations at 4:30 […]

KCMO’s Public Improvements Advisory Committee (PIAC) has recommended funding for almost $1 million in trail projects for 2008-2009. This citizens committee makes the City Council on projects funded by the city’s sales tax. The full City Council will make the final decision later this month.
Projects recommended for funding include:

Riverfront Heritage Trail - connection between […]

Today the Star’s Watchdog column covers poor trail maintenance in Johnson County.  It seems that Overland Park is having trouble keeping up with the Joneses in Olathe, but they promise to do better.
(Photo by Warren)

2007 was a huge year for bicycling in the Kansas City metro area. Here are some of the highlights…
Tour of Missouri
The largest sporting even in the history of Missouri kicked off here in KC on the Country Club Plaza. It was a huge success. The KC stage is rumored to have attracted the […]

Send a quick message to voice your support for the Katy-to-KC connection.
Last month a deal was announced to extend the Katy Trail to the Kansas City metro area. It’s part of a bigger settlement over the Taum Sauk dam collapse and subsequent destruction of Johnson Shut-Ins State Park. This settlement is in open […]

Here is yet another trail-related item from a KC-area suburb! The Examiner reports that this spring Independence and Jackson County will extend the trail that runs through the Little Blue Trace nature preserve. This popular 11 mile streamway trail follows the Little Blue River from US 24 down to the big box retail […]

The suburb of Lee’s Summit, MO is updating its extensive greenway plan. The plan includes a 40 mile loop around the city, as well as another 70 miles of trails inside the city. While the outer loop is mostly a streamway recreational trail, most of the interior routes would be the troublesome side […]

Grain Valley sits on the eastern edge of Kansas City’s booming suburban sprawl. Within the space of a decade it has morphed from a walkable and bikeable farming town into an automobile-dependent suburban bedroom community. Citizens seem to be realizing the impact of sprawl on their community, and the city has responded with a […]