A documentary film · Screening now
Missouri built it mile by mile, town by town. This is the film about how it happened, and the map for riding all of it.
Official poster · thetrailstate.org
Forty years ago a flooded rail line could have become 237 miles of fences. Instead Missouri built America’s longest rail-trail.
Nine PBS premiere · Oct 12
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On September 17 Governor Mike Kehoe signed a proclamation naming September 22 as Trail State Day in Missouri, which was the day the film premiered at the Missouri History Museum.
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The trail exists because people paid for it, cleared it, and fought for it. These are the groups still doing that work.