Day Four
Sunday, May 25, 2025
Lisa: We woke to pouring rain after spending a pleasant night on the carpeted floor of Colony Methodist and decided to attend services after speaking to Pastor Welch. So glad we did!
Colony to Iola
Originally Iola RV & Storage, actual America's Best Value Inn
7.52 total miles
67° at 1:40 p.m.
Iola
The only mileage we got in was in Iola, heading down the trail that we would take the next day, rain or shine.
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Downers
Lisa:
- Heartbreaking day: we made the tough decision to allow Leonard and Debbie to drive us and our strollers to Iola because the rain wouldn’t let up.
- We felt like we cheated.
Marianne:
- More rain.
- Only one more day of hiking.
Highlights
Lisa:
- Church services were wonderful. With only ten people in attendance, we were able to meet and talk with everyone.
- Decent dinner at El Charro.
- Seeing parts of the trail that we bypassed under water, thereby vindicating our cowardly decision to ride instead of walk.
Marianne:
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Got a ride to Iola from Leonard and Debbie (church members).
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Staying in a hotel again instead of a tent.
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Walked around Iola and part of the Southwind Trail.
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We were getting a much needed rest
Fast Facts: Iola, Kansas
- Founded in 1859
- Population 5396 (as of 2020 Census)
- Notable people:
- Johnny Adams, jockey and racehorse trainer, born in Carlisle, Arkansas but raised in Iola
- D. D. Crabb, rancher and Arizona State Senator
- Dean Hargrove, television producer, writer, and director, specializes in creating mystery series
- Vicki Lasseter, February 1981 Playboy Playmate of the Month
- Lila Leeds, actress, born in Iola
- Lillian Hoxie Picken, educator and textbook editor
- William Newbury, mayor of Iola in the first half of 1870, and later mayor of Portland, Oregon
- Randy Stuart, actress
- David Toland, secretary of the Kansas Department of Commerce and Lieutenant Governor of Kansas
- J. Roger Beatty, research fellow for the B. F. Goodrich company
Photo Gallery
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Loved the pictures and stories! What fun despite the rain!