Tabor to Platte Rail to Trail In the March-April 2024 'South Dakota Magazine' they are promoting the Rail to Trail project. It reads in part 'Tabor to Platte Rail to Trail would follow a wagon path known as the Military Road that was established in the 1860s. Twenty years later, the Milwaukee Road replaced horses with steel rails. Eventually it became known as the Napa-Platte Line.'

This statement is not true. If you go five miles southeast of Avon there is a sign in the fence line on the east side of Road 409. That sign is 2 3/4 miles south of the rail. The sign read 'Sioux City to Fort Randall Military Road 1856-1892. discoverybonhomme. com.

I have a map of the Military Road and as you go west it will get up to six miles from the trail.

I am very disappointed the friends didn't do their homework to provide accurate information. Respectfully, Ed Van Gerpen Avon, SD