We biked the Landon Trail by way of the City of Topeka's Shunga Trail. We turned south @ the bicycle Roundabout. This trail is a continued concrete for about 2 1/2 miles. Then it turns into a spongey gravel. It looks like more work is being done by the construction equipment that is on the trail. Hopefully it will continue to develop with either concrete or a better grade of gravel for Bicyclists.

I rode this trail for about three miles on a fat-tired cyclocross bike. The trail is often somewhat rocky, overgrown, unkept, sandy, and can be muddy. Dense trees are growing along both sides of the trail, blocking much view of the countryside. I started at 53rd and Adams, and rode south. The map for this trail shows a parking area on the south-east corner, but the parking is actually about 100 meters west of Adams on the north side of 53rd.

Its a decent afternoon for local casual mountainbikers and horseback riders, but not really worth a long car trip. It would probably be impassable for any road bike (mine is kind of a road bike but it wears 45mm wide tires). I turned around about three miles south of 53rd street because the trail was so strewn with large rocks it wasn't safe for my cyclocros bike, and was not the pleasant ride in the country I was seeking.

"This is not a review, but an attempt to contact the trail organization with a question since you don't seem to have any other way of simply contacting you. I try to collect trail patches of all the trails I complete. The Prairie Spirit Trail has one and I was wondering if you do too. I have the same question regarding the Flint Hills Nature Trail. If you can't answer one or both of these questions, could you please direct me to someone who can? [or consider developing a trail patch as part of fund-raising]? Thanks so much."