Screening now
Forty years ago a flooded rail line could have become 237 miles of fences. Instead Missouri built the longest rail-trail in America, mile by mile, town by town. This is the film about how it happened, and the map for riding all of it. It premiered at the Missouri History Museum in September 2026 and is on Nine PBS and pbs.org now.
Official poster · thetrailstate.org
More dates on the way ★ Bring your bike friends
Already shown in St. Louis, Columbia and New Haven.Where it’s been →
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I always think of the Katy Trail as Missouri’s longest welcome mat.
Brett Dufur, author of the Katy Trail guidebookWhy Missouri is the Trail State →
Chris Ryan
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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.
