Definitive Katy Trail Files



Welcome to the Definitive Katy Trail Files here you will find files with coordinates to things like Bed and Breakfasts, wineries, places to eat and points of interests.

The project came from a thought about riding the Katy Trail from end to end (225 miles). I found coordinates to the towns but not to any of the hundreds of places you can see. So I decided to look up the places that didn't have a complete address and find it. Once I had that I took that information to a website that does geocoding. That gave me the coordinates to all of these great places to see on my cross state ride.

(geocoding is the process of taking an address on the planet and converting it to a longitude and latitude coordinate or reverse.)

Having been a geocacher for 2 years I use my GPS a lot and this seems like a good way to make use of it again.  So what I have done is taken the addresses of the places from http://www.bikekatytrail.com/ and added some I found thengeocoded them. Now after that I can load these coordinates to my GPS, while on my ride I will know what's ahead of me and how far I have to ride or walk.


These are the original files that I had created and then I had an idea. I would create one big Excel file with probably everything you might want to plan a KT Trail trip.  


Here are the new files
Office 2000-2003 Katy_Planner_01.xls
Office 2007         Katy_Planner_01.xlsx

If you would like the files created or saved some other way and I will do what I can to meet your need.




Old files may not be updated unless requested.


What I have done here is taken data about the Katy Trail and created files in different formats for you to use as you see fit. You can also load these into your GPS to use while traveling.

So here is the data in other formats with GPS coordinates: (If you a different format, let me know and I will see what I can do.)


To download the files, right click on a link and use the "Save As" option.

Streets&Trips      Katy Trail B & B's   Katy Trail Wineries  Katy Trail Eateries   Katy Trail Poi          Katy Towns
                                                                                                                                      (Points of Interest)