As we all know, Riverside Missouri gets trails. Now they are working on finishing a key gap in the system that will almost fully connect the Briarcliff Village area to Route 152. It was just a little over 2 years ago that I blogged about how to get from Vivion Road to Briarcliff and that was after riding on road on Waukomis for 1+ miles.
Now Riverside is constructing the connection from the Line Creek Trail to the Linear Trail which uses the old Kansas City to St. Jospeh Interurban Railroad corridor. I used that high tech drafting program MS Paint (which I first used in 1989...) to highlight the general location of the connection.
The Line Creek Trail is shown in green at the top of the aerial and also over on the left side. Riverside needs to/is doing some planning and design to figure out how to connect and finish the gap. Until it is finished, just ride on Vivion Road between the Sonic™ and QuikTrip™ (blue lines)to get to the lower portion of the Line Creek Trail and the Missouri River.
The Linear Trail on the old Interurban Railroad is shown in green at the bottom. The connection between the two is is shown in the dashed purple. I think it would be technically named the Vivion Road Trail since that trail would start at Line Creek and go east.
I'm not sure what the schedule is but it is short and should be done fairly quickly. Here is the construction at the end of Klamm Drive.
In order to get to it from the Line Creek Trail just loop around and cross the bridge and head towards the street (Klamm Drive) right next to Mad Mike's Fireworks and go south 200 or so feet.
What is amazing is how much has been built in just 2 years. There is a lot of green on this Northland trail map that wasn't there in 2012 and there are a lot of people to thank for that but Riverside needs to be thanked again for thinking and acting regional. Without their efforts we wouldn't have such a connected bikeway/trail system in Platte County.
Read more about Riverside's trail system from their official website here.
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