Walking Event:

— The 10 km trail will take walkers along The Pioneer Spirit Trail around Lake Hastings and through the City of Hastings visiting historic sites and parks throughout town...the Hastings Museum grounds, Libs Park, Heartwell Park, and Hastings College. — The 5 km trail will take walkers through the City of Hastings to the original Kool-Aid production building, the beautiful Burlington Depot (still operating as an Amtrak stop). —Hastings is a city in and the county seat of Adams County. The population was 24,064 at the 2000 census. Hastings is home to Hastings College, a four-year liberal arts college founded in 1882. It is known as the town where Kool-Aid was invented by Edwin Perkins in 1927, and celebrates that event with Kool-Aid Days the second weekend of every August. Hastings is also home to Fisher Fountain, and during World War II operated the largest Naval Ammunition Depot in the United States. Hastings is also the birthplace of Neal Hefti and former University of Nebraska football coach and Congressman Tom Osborne.