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The Flint Hills Nature Trail’s grand-opening event will take place Oct. 6-7 in Osage City, Council Grove and Osawatomie.
Rush the Rails will include rides, competitive races and relays, along with other festivities at communities along the trail. The Flint Hills Nature Trail is the newest and longest nature trail in Kansas, stretching 117 miles along the old 1880s railroad route called the Council Grove, Osage City and Ottawa Railway from Osawatomie to Herington.
The five-county trail runs through the communities of Rantoul, Ottawa, Pomona, Vassar, Osage City, Miller, Admire, Allen, Bushong and Council Grove and features scenic views of tallgrass prairie, eastern woodlands and rolling hills and bluffs along the Marais des Cygnes River.
The new trail is the seventh-longest rail-trail in the United States and follows the general route of the Santa Fe National Historic Trail. It forms a component of the coast-to-coast American Discovery Trail.
For more information about the trail and the event, go online to www.rushtherails.com and www.kanzatrails.org.
The five-county trail runs through the communities of Rantoul, Ottawa, Pomona, Vassar, Osage City, Miller, Admire, Allen, Bushong and Council Grove and features scenic views of tallgrass prairie, eastern woodlands and rolling hills and bluffs along the Marais des Cygnes River.
The new trail is the seventh-longest rail-trail in the United States and follows the general route of the Santa Fe National Historic Trail. It forms a component of the coast-to-coast American Discovery Trail.
For more information about the trail and the event, go online to www.rushtherails.com and www.kanzatrails.org.
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