In 1986 a resident of Eldon, Missouri, called the newly created Rails to Trails Conservancy to ask what it would take to turn ...

On Wednesday, Jackson County stopped construction of the Rock Island bike trail after the federal Surface Transportation Board revoked the county’s authority to operate the one-time railroad ...

Cancel anytime. A 144-mile stretch of the former Rock Island rail line is set to be transferred to the state by the end of 2017 for eventual use as a bike trail, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon said at a ...

It is connected to the larger state-maintained Rock Island Trail, which extends northwest another 26 miles from Alta to Toulon. The trail is named after the now-defunct railroad that once ran ...

A major milestone in extending the Rock Island Trail into central and eastern Missouri is quickly approaching.