The Friends of the Casey Jones Trail Association is a non-profit corporation, formed to advocate for the continued development of the Casey Jones State Trail.

The dream for this group is to have a multi-seasonal, multi-use trail to run diagonally from the southwest corner of Minnesota to the Minnesota River: A trail of over 100 miles.

With other trails groups in the region creating trails as well, there is potential for a vast, interconnected series of trails crisscrossing Southwest Minnesota!

The hard work of forward-thinking people in the late 1960s resulted in the Casey Jones Trail being the first legislatively authorized state trail in Minnesota.

A six mile paved loop trail connecting Lake Shetek State Park with Murray County’s End-O-Line Park in Currie was constructed in 1996 and later included in the state trail authorization.