
Rocheport to New Franklin - Rocheport, MO
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YoSam.
N 38° 58.653 W 092° 33.654
15S E 538034 N 4314376
Another guide and highlight marker at the Katy Trail Trailhead, this one in Rocheport.
Waymark Code: WM15V3N
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 02/28/2022
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County of marker: Boone County
Location of marker: 1st St. & Ward St., Rocheport
Marker erected: 2010
Marker erected by: Missouri Department of Natural Resources
The distance to New Franklin is 9.9 miles. This section of trail is tree- or bluff-lined with views of the agricultural landscape.
Heading west from Rocheport, Katy Trail State Park users cross Moniteau Creek at milepost 178.8. This bridge was built in 1943 after an earlier bridge burned when an ammunition train exploded. After crossing the bridge, take a short detour to Diana Bend Conservation Area overlook. This area offers visitors an opportunity to visit a wetland along the Katy Trail.
At milepost 178.9 is the one and only tunnel on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Line. The blackened ceiling stands as a reminder of the trains that passed through this tunnel from 1893 to 1986. The tunnel is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Davidson Conservation Area (milepost 182.2) offers primitive camping, hiking, picnicking, hunting, fishing, frogging, outdoor photography, nature study and wildlife viewing. At the former site of Pearsons is an expansive view of cropfields.
The trail crosses Bonne Femme Creek at milepost 187.8. Capts. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark camped at the old mouth of this creek on June 7, 1804. Lewis and two men paddled partway up the Bonne Femme.