Landon Nature Trail:
Kansas
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Description:
From the Kanza Rail-Trail Conservancy's web site: http://www.landontrail.org/home.html

The Landon Nature Trail is a rail-trail which is being developed on 38 miles of the former Missouri-Pacific Railroad from Topeka, south, to a point east of Pomona Lake in Osage County. This historic 122 year old "Mo-Pac" rail corridor is being developed as a trail and wildlife area open to the public for non-motorized use. Visitors are invited to come out and enjoy activities such as hiking, biking, running, and horseback riding. The route also comprises the major north-south artery of the Topeka City Trail System.

The "Landon" begins in front of the Brown v. Board of Education, National Historic Site, administered by the National Park Service at SE. 15th and Monroe in Topeka, Kansas. It travels south comprising the main north-south leg of the Topeka city trails system. It continues southeast to Clinton Lake and the Clinton Wildlife Area on the Wakarusa River at about Milepost 12½. It then travels south through Osage County following Camp Creek, to Overbrook. The "Landon" continues south through Michigan Valley and over the historic 110 Mile Creek. This creek marked the 110 mile marker for travelers on the Santa Fe Trail. It runs along the east boundary of Pomona Lake and near Pomona State Park. It intersects the east-west Flint Hills Nature Trail near the town of Pomona at the old rail junction called Lomax Junction. The Flint Hills Nature Trail is 117 miles in length and also part of the Kanza Rail Trails Conservancy, Inc.
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Parking & Trail Access:
There are no fees for parking or to use the trail. Trail regulations are posted at each road crossing. The finished and open sections will be added as they are developed. Open sections are those between listed ending points. No firearms or hunting on trail property. The trail is closed sunset to sunrise.
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Needs a bit of TLC. Best for horses and mountain bikes
By jeffdrafttech on July 07, 2008
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.
Trail Patch?
By on November 02, 2006
"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."
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