I've been visiting St. Louis for the first time this week and was able to spend a couple of hours yesterday riding the Katy Trail on a rental from Momentum Bikes in St. Charles........Wow! What a great trail! I rode from St. Charles down past Green Bottoms, plus a bit of the Creve de Coeur---probably 20-22 miles total. If the heat hadn't been quite so fierce, and I'd had more water with me, I'd have stayed out twice as long.....Anyway, just wanted to tell the St. Louis area TE'ers that this visitor was *very* impressed by the Katy and by what appears to be a cycling-friendly park system overall. Wish I had had more time to ride, but even a small taste of the Katy was terrific! (And the MO Botanical Garden was phenomenal---I spent all day Sunday there and enjoyed every minute of my dawdle!)