Inside Independence: National Frontier Trails Museum
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The Missouri River: Starting Point for the Western Trails, by Travis Boley
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The Missouri River: Starting Point for the Western Trails, by Travis Boley, Association Manager for the Oregon-California Trails Association - Tuesday, October 27, 2015.
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For many pioneers headed west, the Missouri River served as the first leg in their journey to the Western Trails. Travis Boley,, rethinks the Missouri River in terms of its unique status as a waterway that doubles as a National Historic Trail.
He is already engaged in creating a 40 mile hiking/biking trail in the shared historic corridor of the Oregon/California/Santa Fe Trail from Sugar Creek, Missouri to Gardner, Kansas. It will intersect with the Katy Trail Extension at 63rd and Blue Ridge Blvd. in Raytown, Missouri making it possible for hikers and bikers to easily access the Missouri River at the former Wayne City Landing near present day Sugar Creek, Missouri.
His grander vision includes opening up wide swaths of the Missouri River shoreline to allow similar non-motorized access to our metro area’s riverfront, including trails that connect the remaining historic sites from the Lewis & Clark Expedition and the old riverboat landings for the wagon roads. This concept would fully realize the idea that Congress established in the 1968 National Trails Act, which called for the building of “retracement” trails in such corridors to forever preserve these corridors.
Lewis And Clark State Park
Lewis and Clark used a keelboat to haul most of their supplies up the Missouri River. It was moved by sail, oars, poles and towlines. The replicas of the keelboat and the explorers’ small boats, called pirogues, which are quartered here were used in the Ken Burns’ documentary “Undaunted Courage”. For more information, go to
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