More cemeteries and oddities. All coordinates and directions for The Lower Hamburg Road Hike can be found on the TNT web site (http://www.thetntstory.org/). This is the gate (with three large rocks) that I was looking for last Sunday. It's across the road, south about .4 miles from the gate I thought was the correct starting point. There really isn't a parking lot, so if you are nervous pulling over the side and leaving your car in the dirt, park in the parking lot next to the other metal gate and large rocks, just .4 miles north of this location. (It is also across the road.) I hiked in intermittent but light rain, 55 degree temperature. The wetness made everything more vivid. I did seem some bicyclists on the Katy Trail, but no one on the Hamburg Road trail--and no one at the cemetery or Yahn Damn.
All of these hikes are called Cemetery Hikes on the TNT web site. And each trail contains an old graveyard; the Heck Roth Cemetery is the burying place of a Civil War regimental musician. You can find what remains of the Beatty home just 100 yards down the trail from the cemetery. Look to your left, the same side as the cemetery.
Before you reach the Katy Trail, you'll see this section of fence, which has been cut away--if you go through the opening, you'll find yourself standing in front of a reservoir of some sort. There were geese swimming in it on the day that I visited.
The very cool thing about this hike is that the trail runs into the Katy Trail which runs parallel to the Missouri River. Easy hike, great views.
The Yahn Damn: Frederick Yahn decided he would start a motorboat club by damning a small stream that flowed into the Missouri River. The project was abandoned, but the structure still stands down a hill just off the trail.
The Hamburg Dump lies just off the trail and contains artifacts dating back to the 1940's.
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