Grant's River Greenway

This morning Aimee and I went for a nice long run (12 and 13 miles respectivley) on the Grant's River Greenway in STL. We are in town for a wedding that Aimee is in and we needed somewhere to run. While driving on I-44, we saw an overpass marked with the Greenway Logo that was close to where we were staying, so we looked it up (Grant's Trail). It's always so hard to run long distance while traveling, but this made it super easy. Aimee and I both commented on how we never imagined St. Louis having something like this inside the city, but it was well maintained, very clean, had mile markers, and there were lots of people using it. We were very impressed. Probably the best part of the whole trail was actually getting to run by Grant's Farm. You can even see the world famous Budweiser Clydesdales along the way. After running, I was asked by two different groups of people about the trail who did not live here, which was kinda ironic since neither did we, but I just started rattling off info like I ran it all the time (or had just finished it for the first time). I bring this story up because soon as we get there it is 5:30 am, dark and no one else is around. Then another car pulls up and I ask the guy if the trail is marked with mile markers. He tells Aimee and I "it is, but I have never been able to figure out the system they use" and he tries to tell us approximately where we should turn around. So we take off and quickly realize that it is marked every 1/2 mile! In Aimee's words, "ya real hard system to figure out". In addition to this trail, STL has many additional Greenway trails throughout the city that will give us new places to run in the future whenever we are up here visiting and if you are ever in town and need somewhere to run, now you know where to go.